🔤 Infantilizes ✨

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📚verb

infantilizes

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DEFINITION

treats someone as if they are a child, reducing them to a state of dependency

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Overprotective parenting sometimes infantilizes teenagers, hindering their development of independent decision making skills today. The patronizing tone of the management policy infantilizes experienced professional employees in office. She argued that treating elderly citizens like helpless dependents needlessly infantilizes them. Excessive bureaucracy infantilizes citizens by dictating every minor civic procedure strictly. The article explains how media representation sometimes infantilizes people with physical disabilities.

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