Usually means: Nourishing baby with mother's milk.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. breastfeed: Merriam-Webster
  2. breastfeed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breastfeed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breastfeed: Vocabulary.com
  5. Breastfeed, breastfeed: Wordnik
  6. breastfeed: Wiktionary
  7. breastfeed: Dictionary.com
  8. Breastfeed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. breastfeed: Rhymezone
  10. breastfeed: FreeDictionary.org
  11. breastfeed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. breastfeed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. breastfeed: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breastfeed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. breastfeed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. breastfeed: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breastfeed: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See breastfeeding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.
verb:  (chiefly of a baby, intransitive) To nurse, to suck milk from a breast.
noun:  An instance of feeding milk to a baby from the breasts; a breastfeeding.

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