Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to infantilize
Participle: infantilized
Gerund: infantilizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | infantilize |
| you | infantilize |
| he;she;it | infantilizes |
| we | infantilize |
| you | infantilize |
| they | infantilize |
Perfect
| I | have infantilized |
| you | have infantilized |
| he;she;it | has infantilized |
| we | have infantilized |
| you | have infantilized |
| they | have infantilized |
Past
| I | infantilized |
| you | infantilized |
| he;she;it | infantilized |
| we | infantilized |
| you | infantilized |
| they | infantilized |
Pluperfect
| I | had infantilized |
| you | had infantilized |
| he;she;it | had infantilized |
| we | had infantilized |
| you | had infantilized |
| they | had infantilized |
Future
| I | will infantilize |
| you | will infantilize |
| he;she;it | will infantilize |
| we | will infantilize |
| you | will infantilize |
| they | will infantilize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have infantilized |
| you | will have infantilized |
| he;she;it | will have infantilized |
| we | will have infantilized |
| you | will have infantilized |
| they | will have infantilized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | infantilize |
| you | infantilize |
| he;she;it | infantilize |
| we | infantilize |
| you | infantilize |
| they | infantilize |
Perfect
| I | have infantilized |
| you | have infantilized |
| he;she;it | have infantilized |
| we | have infantilized |
| you | have infantilized |
| they | have infantilized |
Imperfect
| I | infantilized |
| you | infantilized |
| he;she;it | infantilized |
| we | infantilized |
| you | infantilized |
| they | infantilized |
Pluperfect
| I | had infantilized |
| you | had infantilized |
| he;she;it | had infantilized |
| we | had infantilized |
| you | had infantilized |
| they | had infantilized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would infantilize |
| you | would infantilize |
| he;she;it | would infantilize |
| we | would infantilize |
| you | would infantilize |
| they | would infantilize |
Perfect
| I | would have infantilized |
| you | would have infantilized |
| he;she;it | would have infantilized |
| we | would have infantilized |
| you | would have infantilized |
| they | would have infantilized |
Imperative
| you | infantilize |
| we | Let's infantilize |
| you | infantilize |
Verbs conjugated like 'infantilize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'infantilize'
infantilise,
infantize,
incentivize,
anticize,
artilize,
biofertilize,
Byzantinize,
defertilize,
facilize,
fanaticize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English infantile
3. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
6. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
7. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
8. Late Latin -izōder.
9. Middle French -iserbor.
10. Middle English -isen
11. English -ize
12. English infantilize
13. From infantile + -ize (“make into”).
Sample Sentences
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For too long, many of us have sought unity by binding ourselves together with the umbilical cords of dogma. They have done less and less to nurture us in recent years, and more and more to infantilize us. [1984 August 18, Scott Tucker, “The Politics of Perversion”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 8:]
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Once [Chile] began the transition to democracy in the 1990s, two journalists, Álvaro Díaz González and Pedro Peirano, set out to design a children’s show that they themselves would want to watch – steeped in humor and political criticism, and where children wouldn’t be infantilized. [2026 June 4, Andalusia K. Soloff, “Politics and puppets: The enduring appeal of ‘31 Minutos’”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC:]