as in spoiled
to treat with great or excessive care
he babied his car, faithfully washing it every week if you baby him he'll never learn to take care of himself
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Recent Examples of babied
Outside the woods the whole world babied her.
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Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
Jean’s mama reproached her for not having been more careful and babied Wole, ordering him to remove his T-shirt and retrieving an aloe lotion, telling him to stretch out on the couch and instructing Jean to spread it over the tender areas.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
Jean’s mama reproached her for not having been more careful and babied Wole, ordering him to remove his T-shirt and retrieving an aloe lotion, telling him to stretch out on the couch and instructing Jean to spread it over the tender areas.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for babied
Verb
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Dogs in America are becoming increasingly spoiled.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Yet there also were visible moments where Gordon’s explosion, the hops that spoiled and delighted us, didn’t look the same.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
22 Oct. 2025
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When Mbeumo converted, Liverpool were playing a man down as Mac Allister nursed a head injury on the floor.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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The 6-foot-4, 290-pound defensive lineman, who nursed a high-ankle sprain throughout August and September, returned to the lineup late in the first quarter of the Week 5 win against Miami.—
Mike Kaye
October 9,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Aztecs speared and ate them, and Catholic monks indulged on the aquatic delicacies on days they weren’t allowed to eat red meat.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
9 Sep. 2025
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At one point Wednesday, the judge indulged their request to meet with Adelson and the attorneys at a side bar out of the public’s earshot.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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Eric didn’t deserve to be gunned down, and the system failed him — the system that felt that juveniles needed to be coddled.—
Joe Dwinell,
Boston Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Call us coddled, or sensitive snowflakes, or whatever.—
Vivian Tu,
CNBC,
29 Aug. 2025
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Get pampered at Enchantment Resort Sedona has no shortage of spa and wellness resorts, and one of the most acclaimed of these spots is in Boynton Canyon, one of the city's four major vortexes.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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They will also be pampered in a variety of opulent living areas including movie theater, gym.—
Bill Springer,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Babied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babied. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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