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infantize

infantize verb: infantilize.

Verb

infantize (third-person singular simple present infantizes, present participle infantizing, simple past and past participle infantized)

  1. (transitive) infantilize
    • 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
    • “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

Forms of infantize

third-person singular presentinfantizes
present participleinfantizing
past participleinfantized
pastinfantized

Origin of infantize

From infant + -ize.

Questions about infantize

What does infantize mean?
Infantize means infantilize.
What part of speech is infantize?
Infantize is a verb.
What is the past tense of infantize?
The past tense of infantize is infantized.

Words near infantize in the dictionary

  1. infantilizing
  2. infantine
  3. infanting
  4. Infantino
  5. Infantinos
  6. infantize
  7. infantized
  8. infantizes
  9. infantizing
  10. infantlike
  11. infantly

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