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spoonfeeding
 
Noun spoonfeeding has 2 senses
  1. spoonfeeding - feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon
    --1 is a kind of     feeding, alimentation
    Derived form: verb spoonfeed1
  2. spoonfeeding - teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought
    --2 is a kind of     teaching, instruction, pedagogy
    Derived form: verb spoonfeed2
Verb spoonfeed has 2 senses
  1. spoonfeed - feed with a spoon
    --1 is one way to     feed, give
    Derived form: noun spoonfeeding1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. spoonfeed - teach without challenging the students; "This professor spoonfeeds his students"
    --2 is one way to     teach, learn, instruct
    Derived form: noun spoonfeeding2
    Sample sentence:
    The parents spoonfeed a French poem to the children
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