babify

present singular third person babifies · participle present babifying · participle past babified · past babified · alternative babyfy

1. transitiveTo 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

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   If you continue to indulge you child, babify him, or take away the consequences for her irresponsible behavior, you can rest assured that in the long run you will not produce a respectful, dependable adult.

   2006, Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, chapter 3, in The Brat Stops Here!: 5 Weeks (or Less) to No More Tantrums, Arguing, Or Bad Behavior, →ISBN, page 61