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babifies

babifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 babifies

What is babifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Babifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of babify.

Words near babifies in the dictionary

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

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