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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
Patrick Stewart

Meaning of "force-fed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FORCE-FED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FORCE-FED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Force-Fed is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb force-fed in English.

WHAT DOES FORCE-FED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

force-fed

Force-feeding

Force-feeding is the practice of feeding a person or an animal against their will. The term "gavage" refers to the supplying a nutritional substance by means of a small plastic tube passed through the nose or mouth into the stomach.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FORCE-FED

PRESENT

Present
I force-feed
you force-feed
he/she/it force-feeds
we force-feed
you force-feed
they force-feed
Present continuous
I am force-feeding
you are force-feeding
he/she/it is force-feeding
we are force-feeding
you are force-feeding
they are force-feeding
Present perfect
I have force-fed
you have force-fed
he/she/it has force-fed
we have force-fed
you have force-fed
they have force-fed
Present perfect continuous
I have been force-feeding
you have been force-feeding
he/she/it has been force-feeding
we have been force-feeding
you have been force-feeding
they have been force-feeding
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I force-fed
you force-fed
he/she/it force-fed
we force-fed
you force-fed
they force-fed
Past continuous
I was force-feeding
you were force-feeding
he/she/it was force-feeding
we were force-feeding
you were force-feeding
they were force-feeding
Past perfect
I had force-fed
you had force-fed
he/she/it had force-fed
we had force-fed
you had force-fed
they had force-fed
Past perfect continuous
I had been force-feeding
you had been force-feeding
he/she/it had been force-feeding
we had been force-feeding
you had been force-feeding
they had been force-feeding
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will force-feed
you will force-feed
he/she/it will force-feed
we will force-feed
you will force-feed
they will force-feed
Future continuous
I will be force-feeding
you will be force-feeding
he/she/it will be force-feeding
we will be force-feeding
you will be force-feeding
they will be force-feeding
Future perfect
I will have force-fed
you will have force-fed
he/she/it will have force-fed
we will have force-fed
you will have force-fed
they will have force-fed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been force-feeding
you will have been force-feeding
he/she/it will have been force-feeding
we will have been force-feeding
you will have been force-feeding
they will have been force-feeding
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would force-fed
you would force-fed
he/she/it would force-fed
we would force-fed
you would force-fed
they would force-fed
Conditional continuous
I would be force-feeding
you would be force-feeding
he/she/it would be force-feeding
we would be force-feeding
you would be force-feeding
they would be force-feeding
Conditional perfect
I would have force-fed
you would have force-fed
he/she/it would have force-fed
we would have force-fed
you would have force-fed
they would have force-fed
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been force-feeding
you would have been force-feeding
he/she/it would have been force-feeding
we would have been force-feeding
you would have been force-feeding
they would have been force-feeding
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you force-feed
we let´s force-feed
you force-feed
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to force-feed
Past participle
force-fed
Present Participle
force-feeding
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FORCE-FED

force
force a smile
force de frappe
force down
force majeure
force pump
force someone´s hand
force the issue
force the pace
force-feed
force-field analysis
force-ripe
forceable
forced
forced development
forced entry
forced labour
forced landing
forced march
forced perspective

WORDS THAT END LIKE FORCE-FED

bottle-fed
breast-fed
clip-fed
coiffed
corn-fed
Dyfed
fed
hoofed
miffed
puffed
reel-fed
scuffed
sheet-fed
short-staffed
spoon-fed
staffed
stall-fed
stuffed
understaffed
well-fed

Synonyms and antonyms of force-fed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «force-fed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FORCE-FED

Find out the translation of force-fed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of force-fed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «force-fed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

强行喂食
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

alimentados a la fuerza
570 millions of speakers

English

force-fed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बल खिलाया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إطعامهم قسرا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

принудительному кормлению
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alimentados à força
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জোর করে খাওয়ানো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nourris de force
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Makan-makan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zwangsernährt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

圧送
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

강제로 공급
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gaya-panganan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ép ăn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

படை, ஊட்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शक्ती-फेड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zorla beslendi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ad alimentazione forzata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

karmiona siłą
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

примусовому годуванню
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hrănit forțat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τάιζαν με το ζόρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

krag - gevoed
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tvångsmatad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tvangsforet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of force-fed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FORCE-FED»

The term «force-fed» is regularly used and occupies the 98.726 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FORCE-FED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «force-fed» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «force-fed» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about force-fed

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4 QUOTES WITH «FORCE-FED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word force-fed.
1
Beth Ditto
Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
2
Lesley Manville
I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.
3
Patrick Stewart
I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
4
James Wolcott
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORCE-FED»

Discover the use of force-fed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to force-fed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Self-contained Cold Plate Utilizing Force-fed Evaporation ...
This thesis describes work done on a novel form of two-phase heat transfer, named "Force-Fed Evaporation," which addresses this need.
Thomas Buchanan Baummer, 2007
2
Nutritional Pathology: Pathobiochemistry of Dietary Imbalances
the quantity (3.25 g/day) of the control or experimental diet revealed no, or small, differences in protein synthesis of the liver and gastro- cnemius muscle between the rats force-fed the complete and the threonine-devoid diets (79). Furthermore ...
H. Sidransky, 1985
3
Goose Production
With this method it is recommended that the geese are force-fed four times (twice a day on two occasions as described above) for 18-21 days. The total amount of corn required is about 17-20 kg. The popularity of this technique is due to the ...
Roger B. Buckland, Guy Gérard, 2002
4
Issues in the Ecological Study of Learning
If they drank even one milliliter prior to poisoning, they learned an aversion, but they almost ignored the same or larger amount of the solution if it was force-fed. In fact, I noticed that they were closing off their esophagi, so that the force-fed ...
T. D. Johnston, A. T. Pietrewicz, 2014
5
Plasma Protein Metabolism: Regulation of Synthesis, ...
rats were force-fed the threonine-devoid diet for 6 days they Showed even greater stimulation (+305 %) of seromucoid synthesis when compared to the control group. The changes observed in the rate of incorporation of labeled amino acids ...
Marcus Rothschild, 2012
6
The Global Guide to Animal Protection
The animals are raised and force-fed under conditions that are quite barbaric and contrary to basic animal welfare. When they are four months old, the ducks are trained to eat increasing quantities, administered in a single daily feeding ...
Andrew Linzey, 2013
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Food and Morality: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on ...
At the end of the training period, some groups of birds of each species were force fed, while others continued to eat from troughs in amounts comparable to the force fed birds. A separate experiment by the same group measured the ducks' ...
Susan R. Friedland, 2008
8
Issues in Biochemistry and Biophysics Research: 2011 Edition
Examining swimming behavior and physiological status following periods of feeding and fasting is important because wild fish often face periods of starvation, ” investigators in the United States report. “In the current study, researchers force fed ...
‎2012
9
Law and Ethics in Nursing and Health Care
1 CAN JANE BE FORCE FED? Life has not been kind to Jane, who is 22 and suffering from anorexia nervosa. Her mother died when she was 4 and her father, who was successfully caring for her and her twin brother, Alistair, was killed in an  ...
Judith Hendrick, 2000
10
Contemporary Studies on Fish Feeding
Exponential model fitted in original paper. studies the fish were force fed (Table 2 ). As mentioned above, this will bias the results towards the predictions given by the square root model, hence these studies should not be used when comparing  ...
Charles A. Simenstad, Gregor M. Cailliet, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORCE-FED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term force-fed is used in the context of the following news items.
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Abusive boyfriend 'force-fed girlfriend dog food and squirted brown …
Abusive boyfriend 'force-fed girlfriend dog food and squirted brown sauce in her hair'. 11:25, 11 July 2015; By Chris Hewett-MIR ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Obama Administration Ordered to Prepare Release of Videos of …
Obama Administration Ordered to Prepare Release of Videos of Former Guantanamo Prisoner Being Force-Fed. Kevin Gosztola July 11, 2015 ... «Firedoglake, Jul 15»
3
Man arrested for raping a minor - The Times of India
However, as the girl got pregnant of two months, Mulani harried her to abort the foetus, failing which he force-fed her abortion tablets, a senior ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
4
Morrissey Calls Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran 'Obvious & Predictable'
"We are force-fed such as Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith,” he concluded, "which at least means that things can't possibly get any worse. It is sad ... «Yahoo Music, Jul 15»
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PAPERMAG: The Best, Worst and Weirdest of the Week
Thus we are force-fed such as Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith, which at least means that things can't possibly get any worse." Damn. -- A.S.. «Papermag, Jul 15»
6
Headlines for July 10, 2015 | Democracy Now!
Attorneys for former prisoner Abu Wa'el Dhiab have fought for the tapes to be made public, saying he was force-fed over 1,000 times in ... «Democracy Now!, Jul 15»
7
The White Post, Yeovil: - Reviews - Food and Drink - The Independent
Long days sealed in a room with two other critics, being force-fed course after course of rich food as though we were juvenile cuckoos. «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Ed Sheeran And Sam Smith 'Sad, Obvious And Predictable' Says …
Thus we are force-fed such as Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith, which at least means that things can't possibly get any worse. It is sad.”. «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
9
Looming Greek Capitulation to Troika? - The Peoples Voice
Its people suffer hugely from force-fed austerity - more coming instead of ... to ignore popular sentiment - OXI, no more Troika force-fed pain and ... «The People's Voice, Jul 15»
10
These days, we're all too scared to reprimand other people's unruly …
While none of us should ever advocate assaulting children, thousands will be thinking that in being force-fed a bar of soap, a potty-mouthed kid ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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