infantilized
/ɪnˈfæntɪlaɪzd/
adjective
- Treated or made to feel like a child, often by being denied responsibility or independence.
- The infantilized patients in the nursing home were not allowed to decide their own daily routines.
- The infantilized workers felt frustrated that they could not make their own choices.
- She felt infantilized by her partner, who always spoke to her in a baby voice.
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verb
- Past tense or past participle of infantilize: treated someone as if they were a child.
- The government infantilized the citizens by censoring all news.
- The coach infantilized the team by giving them a strict bedtime.
- He infantilized his younger brother by never letting him make any decisions.