You shouldn't coddle her so much. She needs to learn to be independent.
Source: tatoeba (678380)
Coddle
//ˈkɑ.dəl//
Synonyms for "coddle" (104 found)
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Translations
45 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- варя на бавен огън verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
- глезя verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- къкря verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
- угаждам verb (to treat gently or with great care)
Czech
4 entries- hýčkat verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- lehce povařit verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
- mírně povařit verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
- rozmazlit verb (to treat gently or with great care)
Dutch
3 entries- vertroetelen verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- verwennen verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- zachtjes koken verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
Esperanto
1 entries- dorloti verb (to treat gently or with great care)
Finnish
4 entries- hauduttaa verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
- hoitaa verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- hoivata verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- lelliä verb (To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect)
French
4 entries- choyer verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- couver verb (To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect)
- dorloter verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- mijoter verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
Galician
2 entries- malcriar verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- mimar verb (to treat gently or with great care)
German
4 entries- köcheln verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
- verhätscheln verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- verwöhnen verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- überbehüten verb (To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect)
Greek
4 entries- καλομαθαίνω verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- παραχαϊδεύω verb (To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect)
- περιποιούμαι verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- σιγοβράζω verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
Hindi
1 entries- दुलारना verb (to treat gently or with great care)
Polish
1 entries- rozpieszczać verb (to treat gently or with great care)
Portuguese
1 entries- amimar verb (to treat gently or with great care)
Romanian
2 entries- fierbe la foc mic verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
- răsfăța verb (To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect)
Spanish
4 entries- cocinar a fuego lento verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
- consentir verb (to treat gently or with great care)
- escalfar verb (to cook slowly in hot water)
- malcriar verb (to treat gently or with great care)
Swedish
1 entries- pjoska verb (to treat gently or with great care)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
He’s ten years old now and should be able to take care of himself. If you coddle him too much, he’ll be a namby-pamby baby instead of a live boy.
Source: tatoeba (12021419)
How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?
Source: wiktionary
a coddled egg
Source: wiktionary
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