overfed

Describes a person or animal that has been given too much food, often resulting in being overweight or unhealthy.

• 🇫🇷Décrit une personne ou un animal qui a reçu trop de nourriture, ce qui mène souvent à un excès de poids ou à des problèmes de santé.

1. Excessively nourished B2 formal

   Having been given too much food, resulting in being overweight or unhealthy.

   • The overfed cat could barely move from its spot.
   • Many pets in wealthy countries are overfed and lack exercise.
   • An overfed population faces higher risks of heart disease.

   🇫🇷suralimenté

   Synonymes: fattenedstuffed

   Antonymes: hungrystarvedunderfedundernourished

• more overfed comparative form
• most overfed superlative form

verbe irrégulier

A verb used to indicate the act of feeding someone or something too much or excessively.

• 🇫🇷Verbe utilisé pour désigner l'action de nourrir quelqu'un ou quelque chose de trop ou de manière excessive, ou encore de manger soi-même avec excès.

1. Feed excessively B2 formal

   To give too much food to someone or something, often leading to health problems.

   • It is important not to overfeed your pet, as it can cause obesity.
   • Parents sometimes overfeed their children out of love.
   • The farmer was warned not to overfeed the livestock.

   🇫🇷suralimenter

   Synonymes: cramfattenglutgorgesatiatestuffsurfeit

   Antonymes: starveundernourish

• overfed past participle
• overfed past simple
• overfeeding present participle
• overfeeds third person singular