Usually means: Treat someone as a child.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word infantilize:

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  1. infantilize: Merriam-Webster
  2. infantilize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. infantilize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. infantilize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Infantilize, infantilize: Wordnik
  6. infantilize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. infantilize: Wiktionary
  8. infantilize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. infantilize: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. infantilize: Dictionary.com
  11. infantilize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infantilize: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (infantilize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To reduce (a person) to the state or status of an infant.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To treat (a person) like a child.

Similar:
infantize, infantilise, babify, kindergartenize, reduce, subhumanize, inferiorize, idiotize, bestialize, unchild, more...

Opposite:
mature, adultify, empower, dignify

Types:
condescend, patronize, belittle, more...

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Similar:
infantize, infantilise, babify, kindergartenize, reduce, subhumanize, inferiorize, idiotize, bestialize, unchild, more...

Opposite:
mature, adultify, empower, dignify

Types:
condescend, patronize, belittle, more...



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