Usually means: Provide information in overly simple way.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word spoon-feed:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. spoon-feed: Merriam-Webster
  2. spoon-feed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spoon-feed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spoon-feed, spoon-feed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spoon-feed: Wordnik
  6. spoon-feed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. spoon-feed: Wiktionary
  8. spoon-feed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. spoon-feed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. spoon-feed: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. spoon-feed: Dictionary.com
  12. spoon-feed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Spoon-feed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. spoon-feed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. spoon-feed: Idioms

(Note: See spoon-fed as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To help somebody (usually a baby or elder) to eat using a spoon; to feed using a spoon.
verb:  (transitive) To overly pamper or indulge (someone), so that they do not (or because they failed to) act or think for themselves.
verb:  (transitive) To give (something) in an overly pampering way, so that the recipients do not (or because they failed to) act or think for themselves.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To explain (something, to someone) in simple words; to explain (it, to them) in words of one syllable; to spell (it) out (for them).

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