force-feed
/ˌfɔːsˈfiːd˞
/verb [with object]
1Force (a person or animal) to eat food.He would keep the upper one open sometimes; talking to me, watching me, force-feeding me bits of food....
- The mother made me literally force-feed him, shoving puréed food into his mouth as he cried piteously in feeble protest.
- But the cold-blooded insects were force-feeding him with the jail's evening meal - yuck!
1.1Impose or force (information or ideology) on someone: [with two objects]: those teaching our kids should not be force-feeding them political ideas...
- By saturating the airwaves, candidates and news directors could force-feed information to all but the few Americans who eschewed TV altogether.
- I wanted them to have the opportunity to choose their own beliefs instead of being force-fed the most popular one.
- And it's all because of 10 years of force-feeding the public instead of giving them what they want.