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infantizing

infantizing is the present participle and gerund of infantize.

Meaning of infantize

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

Questions about infantizing

What is infantizing the present participle and gerund of?
Infantizing is the present participle and gerund of infantize.

Words near infantizing in the dictionary

  1. Infantino
  2. Infantinos
  3. infantize
  4. infantized
  5. infantizes
  6. infantizing
  7. infantlike
  8. infantly
  9. infantocracies
  10. infantocracy
  11. infantometer

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