breastfeed. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

breastfeed

SYLLABICATION:	breast·feed
PRONUNCIATION:	brstfd
VARIANT FORMS:	or breast-feed
VERB:	Inflected forms: breast-·fed (-fd), breast-·feed·ing, breast-·feeds
TRANSITIVE VERB:	To feed (a baby) mother's milk from the breast; suckle.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	To breastfeed a baby.


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