infantize

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verb

infantilize

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Meanings

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

present singular third person infantizes · participle present infantizing · participle past infantized · past infantized

  1. transitiveinfantilize

    “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
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    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

Origin

From infant + -ize.

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APA

infantize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infantize

MLA

“infantize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infantize. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “infantize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infantize.

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