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- verb chiefly UK Alternative spelling of
infantilize .
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Examples
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Visiting relatives over the years, Mr Timlin saw staff were often having to "infantilise" residents, feeding and mopping up after them.
British Blogs 2010
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Visiting relatives over the years, Mr Timlin saw staff were often having to "infantilise" residents, feeding and mopping up after them.
British Blogs 2010
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Visiting relatives over the years, Mr Timlin saw staff were often having to "infantilise" residents, feeding and mopping up after them.
British Blogs 2010
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Visiting relatives over the years, Mr Timlin saw staff were often having to "infantilise" residents, feeding and mopping up after them.
British Blogs 2010
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Otherwise we infantilise match officials and the watching public.
Hardline defence of referees is a symptom of failure | Paul Hayward 2011
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Quite clearly new Labour have little interest in the poor except to infantilise pacify and bribe.
Toyn Bee in the Tory Bonnet Newmania 2006
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Quite clearly new Labour have little interest in the poor except to infantilise pacify and bribe.
Archive 2006-11-26 Newmania 2006
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A politics where politicians infantilise the public on principle will produce a citizenry that is insolent in practice.
Note on the Text of even The Life Divine betrays a slant Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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A politics where politicians infantilise the public on principle will produce a citizenry that is insolent in practice.
Archive 2008-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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"This is grotesque, vile, a move to infantilise yet further an already infantile electorate and yet another gimmicky evasion of serious policy choices."
Orwellian developments ... Frank Wilson 2007
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