BREASTFEED

breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck

(verb) give suck to; “The wetnurse suckled the infant”; “You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

breastfeed (third-person singular simple present breastfeeds, present participle breastfeeding, simple past and past participle breastfed)

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.

(chiefly, of a, baby, intransitive) To nurse, to suck milk from a breast.

Synonyms

• boobfeed (informal)

Source: Wiktionary