0 to cook food, especially eggs, in water just below boiling temperature: --
coddled eggs
1 to protect someone or something too much: --
2 to protect and treat someone or something with great care: --
Attrebus has been coddled his whole life, and has inflated opinions of his abilities and standings, learning his friends loathe him, and his combat training was carefully orchestrated babysitting.
By making a product cute, the nucleus accumbens in the human brain is targeted and elicits a protective or coddling response, which encourages an individual to acquire (purchase) said item.
The rest of us coddled her gladly, assuming that she needed protection...
In the past, recipes called for coddling fruit, but in recent times the term is usually only applied to coddled eggs.
The temperature was hot, and the band members were used to being left alone, if not coddled, by the prison staff.
The dorm and others like it have created somewhat of a controversy, with detractors saying it represents a step further of coddling the younger generation.
Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white-collar crime for too long, he testified.
The hosts, who nearly always live on the premises, provide plenty of coddling.
