infantilize
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom infantile + -ize (“make into”).
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪn.ˈfæn.tɪ.laɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editinfantilize (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
editto reduce to the state of an infant
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to treat like a child
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References
edit- “infantilize”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Galician
editVerb
editinfantilize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of infantilizar:
Portuguese
editVerb
editinfantilize
- inflection of infantilizar: