force-feed

force-feed
/fawrs"feed", fohrs"-/, v.t., force-fed, force-feeding.
1. to compel to take food, esp. by means of a tube inserted into the throat: They force-fed the prisoners in the hunger strike.
2. to compel to absorb or assimilate: The recruits were force-fed a military attitude.
[1905-10]

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