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breast-feed

 verb
     
Related topics: Birth
breast-feed past tense and past participle breast-fed [intransitive and transitive]
MB if a woman breastfeeds, she feeds her baby with milk from her breast rather than from a bottle [= nurse; ↪ suckle, bottle-feed]
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