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adultifying

adultifying is the present participle and gerund of adultify.

Meaning of adultify

Verb

adultify (third-person singular simple present adultifies, present participle adultifying, simple past and past participle adultified)

  1. To treat a non-adult like an adult.
    • Neil Postman argued for The Disappearance of Childhood in 1982, maintaining that television prematurely adultifies children by confronting them with crime and violence and other adult topics.2014, Anita Wohlmann, Aged Young Adults: Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films
    Antonyms:
    infantilize

Questions about adultifying

What is adultifying the present participle and gerund of?
Adultifying is the present participle and gerund of adultify.

Words near adultifying in the dictionary

  1. adultification
  2. adultified
  3. adultifies
  4. adultiform
  5. adultify
  6. adultifying
  7. adulting
  8. adultisation
  9. adultise
  10. adultised
  11. adultises

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