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		Definition of infantilize in English: infantilize(British infantilise) verb ɪnˈfantɪlʌɪzɪnˈfæntɪlaɪz [with object]Treat (someone) as a child or in a way which denies their maturity in age or experience. 把…当孩子对待;不把…当大人看待  my generation grew up in a time when women were infantilized and treated as property Example sentencesExamples -  Given this, it infantilizes him to ask us to root for him, as if he were a heart-touching runt.
 -  Yet Blair felt unfulfilled, partly because Kelly tended to infantilise her.
 -  To excuse Carr on the grounds of female weakness is to infantilise her and, by implication, womankind…
 -  Finally, corporate HQ had alienated its store managers through infantilizing incentives schemes, and irritated its employees with oppressive ‘loss prevention’ policies.
 -  The exploitation claim is yet another example of a mentality that finds exploitation everywhere even as it infantilizes the folks it purports to speak for.
 -  Another thought about the infantilisation of teens: perhaps the problem is less that we infantilize them than that we treat them like adults before they're ready.
 -  The colonized are infantilized: children are children and they dominate the film.
 -  Korean young people are infantilized throughout most of their lives.
 -  Perhaps the adults [who implemented the codes] are responsible for infantilizing speech.
 -  She never at any point villainizes, criticizes, or infantilizes adolescents' beliefs and experiences; her tone is at all times respectful.
 -  I'd just lost my mind and I was infantilised and it was very depressing.
 -  I worry about infantilized responses, especially when higher education is trying to shape analytic and critical thinking skills.
 -  Why infantilize young people who are entitled to every presumption of adulthood?
 -  No other film-maker conveys so clearly how the bullying communist regime infantilises its citizens and treats everyone like 12-year-olds.
 -  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.
 -  Any culture is infantilized, necessarily, when its members are denied the power to enter into adult commitments - to own, to vote, to defend one's country, to marry.
 -  No one infantilizes adults more than the conservatives and the extreme right.
 -  But how long must we infantilize the very people we're building sites for?
 -  Does the birth of your children infantilize you?
 -  What a godsend to infantilizing irresponsibility that era was.
 
 
 Derivativesnoun   Halloween, for me, is the gaudiest example of the infantilization of American culture. Example sentencesExamples -  A life devoted to instant gratification produces permanent infantilization: ‘at sixty-four… tastes are what they were at seventeen.’
 -  Or maybe it's really just the infantilization of men.
 -  Like the infantilization of the foreigner, the passive, feminized Asian male is a stereotype.
 -  I've talked before about the infantilization of the youth here.
 
 
 
    Definition of infantilize in US English: infantilize(British infantilise) verbinˈfantilīzɪnˈfæntɪlaɪz [with object]Treat (someone) as a child or in a way which denies their maturity in age or experience. 把…当孩子对待;不把…当大人看待  seeing yourself as a victim infantilizes you Example sentencesExamples -  But how long must we infantilize the very people we're building sites for?
 -  I worry about infantilized responses, especially when higher education is trying to shape analytic and critical thinking skills.
 -  Yet Blair felt unfulfilled, partly because Kelly tended to infantilise her.
 -  No other film-maker conveys so clearly how the bullying communist regime infantilises its citizens and treats everyone like 12-year-olds.
 -  Given this, it infantilizes him to ask us to root for him, as if he were a heart-touching runt.
 -  Why infantilize young people who are entitled to every presumption of adulthood?
 -  Another thought about the infantilisation of teens: perhaps the problem is less that we infantilize them than that we treat them like adults before they're ready.
 -  Finally, corporate HQ had alienated its store managers through infantilizing incentives schemes, and irritated its employees with oppressive ‘loss prevention’ policies.
 -  No one infantilizes adults more than the conservatives and the extreme right.
 -  The colonized are infantilized: children are children and they dominate the film.
 -  What a godsend to infantilizing irresponsibility that era was.
 -  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.
 -  Korean young people are infantilized throughout most of their lives.
 -  I'd just lost my mind and I was infantilised and it was very depressing.
 -  She never at any point villainizes, criticizes, or infantilizes adolescents' beliefs and experiences; her tone is at all times respectful.
 -  The exploitation claim is yet another example of a mentality that finds exploitation everywhere even as it infantilizes the folks it purports to speak for.
 -  Does the birth of your children infantilize you?
 -  Perhaps the adults [who implemented the codes] are responsible for infantilizing speech.
 -  Any culture is infantilized, necessarily, when its members are denied the power to enter into adult commitments - to own, to vote, to defend one's country, to marry.
 -  To excuse Carr on the grounds of female weakness is to infantilise her and, by implication, womankind…
 
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