overfed

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adjective

Excessively fed; given too much to eat; having had too much to eat.

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Meanings

adjectiveoverfed (comparative more overfed, superlative most overfed)

comparative more overfed · superlative most overfed

  1. Excessively fed; given too much to eat; having had too much to eat.

    He allowed his ‘boy’—an overfed young negro from the coast—to treat the white men, under his very eyes, with provoking insolence.

    1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 211
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    Was this stupid system, so cruel, so crushing, and producing at the top such absurd results as flashy, insolent autos and silly palaces and overfed, overdressed women, and dogs in jeweled collars, and babies of wealth brought up by low menials—was this system really the best?

    a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of overfeed

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivetoo well nourished

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Englishfed
  8. Englishoverfed

From over- + fed.

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