infantilize
English edit
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Etymology edit
From infantile + -ize (“make into”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪn.ˈfæn.tɪ.laɪz/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb edit
infantilize (third-person singular simple present infantilizes, present participle infantilizing, simple past and past participle infantilized)
- (transitive) To reduce (a person) to the state or status of an infant.
- 1984 August 18, Scott Tucker, “The Politics of Perversion”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 8:
- For too long, many of us have sought unity by binding ourselves together with the umbilical cords of dogma. They have done less and less to nurture us in recent years, and more and more to infantilize us.
- (transitive) To treat (a person) like a child.
Translations edit
to reduce to the state of an infant
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to treat like a child
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Galician edit
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infantilize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of infantilizar:
Portuguese edit
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infantilize
- inflection of infantilizar: