Bottle-feed


to nurse or feed (an infant or young animal) with milk or other nourishment from a nursing bottle.
to nurture or teach with exaggerated care:
We had to bottle-feed the new salesman on how to make door-to-door calls.
to feed an infant or young animal from a nursing bottle.
verb -feeds, -feeding, -fed
to feed (a baby) with milk from a bottle instead of breast-feeding

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