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breast-feed

breast-feed (past and past participle breast-fed, present participle breast-feed·ing, 3rd person present singular breast-feeds)


transitive and intransitive verb 
Definition:
 
feed baby with natural milk: to feed a baby by holding it so that it can suck milk from the breast ( refers to women )

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