infantize
English
Etymology
infant + -ize
Verb
infantize (third-person singular simple present infantizes, present participle infantizing, simple past and past participle infantized)
- (transitive) infantilize
- 1992, Steinar Kvale, Psychology and postmodernism (page 117)
- 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.
- 2008 April 1, William Yardley, “Washington State Debates Strict Bill on Child Products”, in New York Times:
- “Are we ready to infantize 10-year-olds?” he said.
- 1992, Steinar Kvale, Psychology and postmodernism (page 117)