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Definition of Overfeeding
1. Noun. Excessive feeding.
Definition of Overfeeding
1. Verb. (present participle of overfeed) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overfeeding
1. overfeed [v] - See also: overfeed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfeeding
Literary usage of Overfeeding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and by Luther Emmett Holt (1920)
"overfeeding, especially at night, is the most common of all mistakes in ...
What are the causes of overfeeding? The most common one is the habit of watching ..."
2. The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and by Luther Emmett Holt (1909)
"overfeeding What is meant by overfeeding? Giving an infant too much food; ...
overfeeding is sometimes practised during the day, but is chiefly done at ..."
3. Milk by Paul Gustav Heinemann (1919)
"overfeeding.—That overfeeding is responsible for many of the nutritional ills
... When overfeeding is stretched over a long period of time vomiting sets in, ..."
4. Dietotherapy by William Edward Fitch (1918)
"overfeeding from the "medical standpoint will be discussed later. It is no easy
matter to determine exactly what the word overeating implies. ..."
5. Metabolism and Practical Medicine by Karl Harko Noorden, Carl von Noorden, Isaac Walker Hall (1907)
"By the term " overfeeding " is understood the administration of food in such a
quantity as to provide more energy than the needs of the body require. ..."
6. Animal Husbandry for Schools by Merritt Wesley Harper (1919)
"264. Danger of overfeeding calf. — When feeding by hand, there is much danger of
overfeeding and gorging the calf's stomach, ..."
7. Rational treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by Charles Sabourin (1921)
"overfeeding IN TUBERCULOSIS. WHILE an ample diet has been recommended for the
tuberculous from time immemorial, a number of years ago actual overfeeding was ..."
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