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babified

babified is the simple past and past participle of babify.

Meaning of babify

Verb

babify (third-person singular simple present babifies, present participle babifying, simple past and past participle babified)

  1. (transitive) To encourage to behave like a baby; to infantilize.
    • Civilizational elites infantilize nonelites to keep them powerless. By letting elites babify us, we lose power.2000, David Kowalewski, Deep Power: The Political Ecology of Wilderness and Civilization, →ISBN, page 21

Questions about babified

What is babified the simple past and past participle of?
Babified is the simple past and past participle of babify.

Words near babified in the dictionary

  1. babies' toes
  2. babies-to-be
  3. babiest
  4. babiest-faced
  5. babieswear
  6. babified
  7. babifies
  8. babify
  9. babifying
  10. Babiism
  11. babiless

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