Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to handfeed
Participle: handfed
Gerund: handfeeding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | handfeed |
| you | handfeed |
| he;she;it | handfeeds |
| we | handfeed |
| you | handfeed |
| they | handfeed |
Perfect
| I | have handfed |
| you | have handfed |
| he;she;it | has handfed |
| we | have handfed |
| you | have handfed |
| they | have handfed |
Past
| I | handfed |
| you | handfed |
| he;she;it | handfed |
| we | handfed |
| you | handfed |
| they | handfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had handfed |
| you | had handfed |
| he;she;it | had handfed |
| we | had handfed |
| you | had handfed |
| they | had handfed |
Future
| I | will handfeed |
| you | will handfeed |
| he;she;it | will handfeed |
| we | will handfeed |
| you | will handfeed |
| they | will handfeed |
Future Perfect
| I | will have handfed |
| you | will have handfed |
| he;she;it | will have handfed |
| we | will have handfed |
| you | will have handfed |
| they | will have handfed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | handfeed |
| you | handfeed |
| he;she;it | handfeed |
| we | handfeed |
| you | handfeed |
| they | handfeed |
Perfect
| I | have handfed |
| you | have handfed |
| he;she;it | have handfed |
| we | have handfed |
| you | have handfed |
| they | have handfed |
Imperfect
| I | handfed |
| you | handfed |
| he;she;it | handfed |
| we | handfed |
| you | handfed |
| they | handfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had handfed |
| you | had handfed |
| he;she;it | had handfed |
| we | had handfed |
| you | had handfed |
| they | had handfed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would handfeed |
| you | would handfeed |
| he;she;it | would handfeed |
| we | would handfeed |
| you | would handfeed |
| they | would handfeed |
Perfect
| I | would have handfed |
| you | would have handfed |
| he;she;it | would have handfed |
| we | would have handfed |
| you | would have handfed |
| they | would have handfed |
Imperative
| you | handfeed |
| we | Let's handfeed |
| you | handfeed |
Verbs conjugated like 'handfeed'
betide,
bleed,
breed,
crossbreed,
feed,
meet,
misfeed,
overfeed,
spoon-feed,
underfeed,
boobfeed,
bottle-feed,
breast-feed,
breastfeed,
chestfeed,
cofeed,
counterbleed,
counterfeed,
cross-breed,
forbleed, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'handfeed'
hand-feed,
handfast,
handhold,
handle,
handsel,
wildfeed,
acceed,
addeem,
addend,
adeem,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From hand + feed.
Sample Sentences
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Walker only saw the place in its deceitful summer promise, when the corn, whose husks were never to fill, was waving in sunshine, when the potato-fields, which were to yield nothing but dwarfed and rotten tubercles, were still gay in blossom, and the cattle, which for nine months of the year have to be housed and handfed with more tenderness than their masters, were luxuriating in sunny grass. [1878, William O'Brien, Christmas in the Galtees: An Inquiry Into the Condition of the Tenantry of Mr. Nathaniel Buckley:]
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Marjorie handfeeds one of her many pets, an orphaned joey, at Campbell Town. [2011, Danielle Wood, Housewife Superstar: The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh, page 97:]
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It would be important to keep the total number of cattle handfed on property to a minimum. [2016, Lajpat R. Ahuja, Agricultural System Models in Field Research and Technology Transfer:]