Definition of "babied" [babied]

• Simple past tense and past participle of baby. (verb)

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• "The ten-year-old who likes to be coddled by his mother in private would be acutely embarrassed to be "babied" in the presence of other people."
• "And though the women declared that they had "babied" him beyond belief, and the girls said he was as much an old maid as any one of them, their kindness had not spoiled him for he was as generous and unselfish as they were."
• "She watched him and tended him and "babied" him as if he was a spoiled child, pretending to laugh at herself for doing it and at him for permitting it."