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infantize en · VERB

Etymology

From infant + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) infantilize
    • “Are we ready to infantize 10-year-olds?” he said. 2008 April 1, William Yardley, “Washington State Debates Strict Bill on Child Products”, in New York Times:
    • Yet the patient is asked to play the stupid game, to infantize himself. Halfway houses with their stupid rules. Telling a thirty-year-old man who has committed no crime to be good or he will not get TV tonight. 1992, Steinar Kvale, Psychology and postmodernism, page 117:

Forms

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infantizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
infantizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
infantized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
infantized Tense=Past lexicographic