Definition of "spoon-feed" []

• To feed (another) with a spoon. (verb-transitive)
• To treat (another) in a way that discourages independent thought or action, as by overindulgence. (verb-transitive)
• To provide (another) with knowledge or information in an oversimplified way. (verb-transitive)
• To provide (knowledge or information) in an oversimplified way. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "They don't need me to spoon-feed them and I have no problem becoming more passive and let events come to pass without further comment from here."
• "Eve Sussman says, the fact that you could have that reading is also really interesting - I never spoon-feed the audience everything - it's not TV, people can develop their own readings of it, even if you have watched it out of order, it still works."
• "As such, I appreciate that the film didn't spoon-feed the basics, which allows it to concentrate on its sometimes wonky subject matter."