Definition of "bottle-fed" [bottle-fed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of bottle-feed. (verb)
• That has been fed by bottle (adjective)

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• "In the case of some of the more exotic animals, we bottle-fed them when they were small."
• "Having been bottle-fed myself and suffering from many allergies and asthma, I decided that when I had my first child, I would try breastfeeding to see if it worked for me."
• "While breastfed babies limit their own intake of milk because they have to work hard to get it, bottle-fed babies lie back and swallow what they are given."