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babifying

babifying is the present participle and gerund 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 babifying

What is babifying the present participle and gerund of?
Babifying is the present participle and gerund of babify.

Words near babifying in the dictionary

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

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