Spoon-fed
adjective
1.
fed with a spoon.
2.
treated with excessive solicitude; pampered.
3.
given no opportunity to act or think for oneself:
Having always been spoon-fed, I couldn’t meet the challenge of college.
verb (used with object), spoon-fed, spoon-feeding.
1.
to cause to be spoon-fed.
verb (transitive) -feeds, -feeding, -fed
1.
to feed with a spoon
2.
to overindulge or spoil
3.
to provide (a person) with ready-made opinions, judgments, etc, depriving him of original thought or action
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