infantize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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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."
"“Are we ready to infantize 10-year-olds?” he said."

From infant + -ize.

infantizes (present, singular) infantizing (participle, present) infantized (participle, past) infantized (past)

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