verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought wordnet
2. 2
   feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of spoonfeed form-of, gerund, participle, present

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