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Definition of Overfeeds
1. overfeed [v] - See also: overfeed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfeeds
Literary usage of Overfeeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... He spends his little span, and overfeeds His cramm'd desires with more than
nature and health In search of honor, and pursuit of wealth. needs ! ..."
2. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan by Franklin Hiram King (1911)
"... applied more concentrated, not to lighten the burden but to avoid waste by
leaching and over saturation. While ever crowding growth he never overfeeds ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1843)
"The helpless infant, whom the indiscreet mother overfeeds, suffers pain and
sickness as surely as the glutton, who devours voraciously. ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"O wretched man ! in what a mist of life, Enclos'd with dangers and with noisy
strife, He spends his little span ; and overfeeds His cramm'd desires, ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1907)
"... but he talks of Englishmen who do not get mutton three times a day with genuine
pity, as befits one who persistently overfeeds himself with meat, ..."
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