adultize

English

Etymology

From adult + -ize.

Verb

adultize (third-person singular simple present adultizes, present participle adultizing, simple past and past participle adultized)

  1. (transitive, sociology, psychology) To raise (a child) in such a way that it adopts adult behaviors earlier than is usual.
    • 1986, Joanne Rand Whitmore, Intellectual Giftedness in Young Children: Recognition and Development, page 86:
      Talk with them in an adult manner, but do not "adultize" them. Do not expect them to be miniature adults.

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

adultize

  1. inflection of adultizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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