0 to force a person or animal to eat and drink, often putting food into the stomach through a pipe in the mouth:
figurative The whole nation was force-fed government propaganda about how well the country was doing.
1 to force (a person or animal) to eat and drink, often by sending food to the stomach through a tube in the mouth
2 to force (someone) to learn something or accept an opinion or belief:
He is taking one minority—a local government minority—and getting that to force-feed fluoride, as opposed to having a regional health authority do that.
Why do we put them in almost constant solitary confinement and force-feed them by these inhuman methods?
It is impossible to force-feed children by belting them if they do something wrong.
There is no point at which we would force-feed or force on people medical treatment that they had indicated they did not want.
Are we really advancing the frontiers of physiological knowledge if we force-feed animals to death, pumping either anti-freeze or shredded polythene into their stomachs?
If you stick a funnel down a goose's throat and force-feed it with maize, there is no way that you are not causing suffering or injury.
When they finally agreed to force-feed him, his lung was injured by a needle.
The main types are gravity feed, agitating and force-feed.
