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cosseting

verb , present participle of cosset

Synonyms and Antonyms of cosseting

to treat with great or excessive care

a luxury spa where guests are cosseted with no expense spared

Synonyms of cosseting

babying, cockering, coddling, dandling, indulging, mollycoddling, nursing, pampering, spoiling, wet-nursing

Words Related to cosseting

catering (to), humoring

contenting, delighting, gladdening, gratifying, mothering, obliging, pleasing, satisfying

appeasing, mollifying, pacifying, placating, soothing

Near Antonyms of cosseting

controlling, disciplining, restraining

neglecting, overlooking, slighting

molesting, outraging, violating

harassing, harming, hurting, injuring, oppressing, persecuting, tormenting, torturing, victimizing

Antonyms of cosseting

abusing, ill-treating, ill-using, maltreating, manhandling, mishandling, mistreating, misusing

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