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What does infantilize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word infantilize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To reduce (a person) to the state or status of an infant.
  2. (transitive) To treat (a person) like a child.
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I think we have to be careful when we see or represent a woman who does not behave as society expects her to so that we don't infantilize her.
Do we support them and accompany them, overcoming the temptation to manipulate them or infantilize them?
He would rather encourage settlers and entrepreneurs at the grass-roots level — and make them learn how to cope with those impediments themselves — than run the risk that aid might infantilize its recipient.
Civilizational elites infantilize nonelites to keep them powerless. By letting elites babify us, we lose power.
Why infantilize young people who are entitled to every presumption of adulthood?
But how long must we infantilize the very people we're building sites for?

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