infantilize
infantilise BrE

In 1995, he made his son James the chief executive but still tended to infantilize him.

But of course it is Victorian writing that keeps threatening to infantilize us.

It cannot have escaped anyone's notice that much of the current Bush-bashing aims to infantilize him.

Harry is delighted, of course, because it makes them more alike, but it seemed to me to infantilize George further.

You bet Kessler's out to infantilize the American people.

Warmth, the main ingredient, has the ability to "infantilize" if not properly mitigated.

It is that adults, by refusing to believe that children can be anything short of perfect angels, infantilize them further.

The organization believes that current drinking laws "infantilize" young adults and promote immature behaviors.

If he knew that his parents knew of his secret activities, that would infantilize him, apparently.

Of course, this was during the dark ages of maternity fashions, when the clothes' true purpose appeared to be to infantilize the woman wearing them.

Suggesting the Yuquis have regressed serves to justify the practices of the missionaries as they infantilize them.

Then, if one wants to avoid the nanny state and not infantilize readers, there has to be a limit to any cautionary device, doesn't there?

"It doesn't mean you have to treat them like children and infantilize them," Rabbi Hirschhorn said.

She had a tendency to infantilize her movie-star clients though, hovering over them and calling them 'baby.'

It tends to infantilize them and cause them to go dashing about the corridors of advertising agencies with their ties flapping behind them.

Their drug gobbling is highlighted, accompanied by slurps, gulps and other loud noises that infantilize their appetites.

"Again and again, the rape-crisis movement peddles images of gender relations that deny female desire and infantilize women," she writes.

We also need to give more respect for humanities ability to adapt and overcome, we aren't made of sugar, stop trying to coddle and infantilize everyone.

He feels the laddie magazines infantilize men, and that GQ and Details have become purchase-oriented.

--mentally ill, and that charging money to see him alternately irritate and infantilize his audiences was the modern equivalent of Bedlam.

They undermine the tendency to idealize and infantilize children by suggesting that they are smarter, meaner and less unhappy than most grown-ups want to admit.

Some serving commanders are not in favor of The Surge because they fret that it will infantilize Iraqis even more about assuming responsibility for their own security.

But if, as an investment bank lobbyist quoted in the article said, the European Union's approach constitutes treating consumers like "children," please infantilize me the European way.

Lidie is tall, homely, a tomboy--and somewhat anachronistically aware of all the 19 th century clothing and marriage customs that infantilize women.

On top of all this, the President rushes in to infantilize his Vice President, calling Mr. Berke to offer an extremely rare interview.

Are you going to infantilise us and say we didn't know what we were doing either?

Women seem to need to infantilise men: men must be seen as incompetent and not fully grown up.

You can also buy toy-making kits, cute kids' clothes and giant wooden pencils to infantilise your office.

To suggest otherwise is to implicitly infantilise her - and other people who lighten - and hold them incompetent to make proper decisions about their best interests.

That's fine as far as it goes, but I do think that Ben Goldacre has a point when he argues that the media tend to infantilise its readers (viewers, listeners) by treating them as scientifically illiterate.

Her portrayal of a series of superficial characters at the start of her career were criticized; film historian Gyan Prakash explained that these roles "tended to infantilise her, packaging her as daddy's little girl, all bubble and no fizz".