COCKER Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

cocker

verb

ˈkä-kər

Definition of cocker

as in to spoil

to treat with great or excessive care overjoyed to be parents at last, they will likely cocker that child shamelessly

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After spending her time being a wonderful mom, Tiny is ready for someone to spoil her.

— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 17 July 2026
The snippets Quichocho saw online didn’t spoil the film for her.

— Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026

Definition of spoil

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Bordelon first learned about nursing through his aunt, who was a nurse.

— Andrea Hsu, NPR, 21 July 2026
South Korean retail investors who piled into leveraged bets on the country’s AI champions are nursing steep losses, exposing the risks of the speculative trading boom that helped fuel one of the world’s hottest equity markets.

— Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 21 July 2026

Definition of nurse

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The new cub's arrival marks the first time Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium has had a lion birth since July 2020, when lioness Abana mothered three cubs.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 17 June 2026
Virginia Dulles was the opposite of Louanne Bixby—even a hundred children couldn’t exhaust her need to mother them.

— Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Definition of mother

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An emphasis on wellness means not only pampering spa treatments but advanced health tech, movement, and meditation sessions over an entire floor.

— Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
In the Concierge collection of suites on Norwegian Joy, you will also be pampered with spacious accommodations, concierge service, and private dining.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026

Definition of pamper

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Lee indulges that emotional ambiguity, the way the pedal steel can blur the distinction between a frown and a smile.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
That’s what happens when a party and its voters stop seriously competing and instead indulge their passions and fever dreams.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026

Definition of indulge

Verb

The tale is pilfered from the Aeneid, but Virgil would blench to see the curtain rise on Jupiter, dandling Ganymede, a beautiful boy, upon his knee.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
An hour later, Musk took X to New York and dandled him on his knee while being photographed for Time.

— Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023

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