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Adjective: breast-fed  brest fed
  1. (of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast
    "Breast-fed babies tend not to become fat as frequently as bottle-fed babies do"
Verb: breastfeed (breastfed)  brest-feed
  1. Give suck to
    "The wetnurse breastfed the infant"
    - suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck

See also: nursed, suckled

Type of: feed, give

Antonym: bottle-fed, bottlefeed

Encyclopedia: Breastfeed