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"ref": "May 2013 Zoya Pirzad, \"Things We Left Unsaid\" page 277",
"text": "I finally poured water in a glass and shouted at him, \"Keep your cool, man! You're more scared than the rest of us.\" And I force-fed him the water."
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"ref": "August 2013 Vince Seim, \"A Mortal Mistake\" page 422",
"text": "Frederick collapsed upon the stone, coughing up all the water Aerox had force-fed him."
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"ref": "December 2014 Tim Winton, \"Cloud Street\" page 88",
"text": "He remembers the sound of Fish thrashing under the net, how he was forcefed river until he was still and dead and trampled on by his own frightened kin."
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"ref": "April 2015 Heather Burch, \"Summer by Summer\" page 116",
"text": "Over the next two days, Bray's fever returned, left, and returned again. I'd force-fed him enough water to keep him alive, but the supply was dwindling and he lost so much when he had the bouts of sweating, I knew we were hitting a danger zone."
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},
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"ref": "May 2013 Zoya Pirzad, \"Things We Left Unsaid\" page 277",
"text": "I finally poured water in a glass and shouted at him, \"Keep your cool, man! You're more scared than the rest of us.\" And I force-fed him the water."
},
{
"ref": "August 2013 Vince Seim, \"A Mortal Mistake\" page 422",
"text": "Frederick collapsed upon the stone, coughing up all the water Aerox had force-fed him."
},
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"ref": "December 2014 Tim Winton, \"Cloud Street\" page 88",
"text": "He remembers the sound of Fish thrashing under the net, how he was forcefed river until he was still and dead and trampled on by his own frightened kin."
},
{
"ref": "April 2015 Heather Burch, \"Summer by Summer\" page 116",
"text": "Over the next two days, Bray's fever returned, left, and returned again. I'd force-fed him enough water to keep him alive, but the supply was dwindling and he lost so much when he had the bouts of sweating, I knew we were hitting a danger zone."
}
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"text": "The teachers at this school tend to force-feed their students information, rather than encourage critical thinking and debate."
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "force a person or animal to ingest food",
"word": "強行餵食"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiángxíng wèishí",
"sense": "force a person or animal to ingest food",
"word": "强行喂食"
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"sense": "force a person or animal to ingest food",
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"sense": "force a person or animal to ingest food",
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"sense": "force a person or animal to ingest food",
"word": "alimenter de force"
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"sense": "force a person or animal to ingest food",
"word": "zwangsernähren"
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"roman": "prinudítelʹno kormítʹ",
"sense": "force a person or animal to ingest food",
"word": "принуди́тельно корми́ть"
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"sense": "force someone to take in information",
"word": "填鴨式地灌輸"
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"roman": "tiányāshì de guànshū",
"sense": "force someone to take in information",
"word": "填鸭式地灌输"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "force someone to take in information",
"word": "pakkosyöttää"
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"roman": "píčkatʹ",
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"word": "пи́чкать"
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