0 past simple and past participle of infantilize --
1 to treat someone as if that person were a child, with the result that they start behaving like one: --
Elkins speculated that antebellum slavery was a similar environment and instilled an infantilized, dependent personality pattern.
He is ugly, unrefined, and unintelligent, even infantilized.
The stories in this book also serve as a welcome corrective to the many sanitized and infantilized collections of ' folktales ' that often pass for oral literature.
In the second case, the partner, a compulsive caregiver, infantilized the cancer patient.
By necessity the child becomes dependent and infantilized.
