BABYING Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

as in coddling

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verb

present participle of baby

as in spoiling

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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Noun

The novel is in many ways a string of dazzlingly deadpan and sharp observations about navigating the strange world of now, from predictive advertising to sugar babying to dead college friends. — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025

Verb

No one’s babying him (at Houston). — David Aldridge, New York Times, 21 June 2026 Conceivably one or two of them should have already been at Citi Field, but until finally summoning McLean to pitch Saturday, Stearns has been babying them in the minors. — Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025 However, some have criticized employer techniques for tracking in-office attendance as babying employees and demonstrating an unwarranted lack of trust. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Scapicchio rhetorically asked of the Democrats’ continuing pampering and coddling of this monster Proctor.

— Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
In 2023, after Silicon Valley Bank and other institutions failed and were rescued by the Fed and other government institutions, Warsh blamed the episode on the Fed's coddling of the economy.

— Matt Peterson, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of coddling

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Without spoiling what happens next, the mutants confront Trask, and Mystique assumes his identity to further their mission.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Decades later, the government was still buying surplus cheese and storing it in vast underground caves in Missouri, Wisconsin, and Kansas, warehouses cool enough to hold the cheese for years without spoiling.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026

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Whether the race ever happens, the idea is pure Shaq, a celebrity who's renowned for indulging his passions, of which cars are near the top of the list.

— Terry Baddoo, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026
Here was a doctor borrowing the language of a fast food brand while encouraging people not to fear indulging.

— Karin Eldor, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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