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Spoonfeed (Verb)

Feed with a spoon.

Verbs of eating and drinking.

The nurse gently spoonfed the baby with warm cereal every morning.
As the elderly woman struggled to hold her spoon, her granddaughter came to spoonfeed her.
She learned to spoonfeed her little brother when their mother was away at work.
It was his job to spoonfeed his newborn puppy milk from a spoon.
After the accident, his wife had to spoonfeed him his meals for several months.

Teach without challenging the students; "This professor spoonfeeds his students".

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

The teacher was spoonfeeding her students the answers instead of letting them solve the problems on their own.
The instructor was criticized for spoonfeeding the class, as it hindered their ability to think critically.
He had a tendency to spoonfeed his students complex concepts, never giving them the opportunity to figure things out independently.
She felt that her math teacher was spoonfeeding her by walking her through every single problem step-by-step.
The learning environment was too controlled, with the mentor spoonfeeding the students information without encouraging them to explore and discover new ideas.