as in spoiled
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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Recent Examples of babied
Outside the woods the whole world babied her.
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Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
Jean’s mama reproached her for not having been more careful and babied Wole, ordering him to remove his T-shirt and retrieving an aloe lotion, telling him to stretch out on the couch and instructing Jean to spread it over the tender areas.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for babied
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Since the totality is gracing Libya and Egypt, clear skies are almost guaranteed for the astounding event—a welcome piece of news for anyone who remembers the clouds that spoiled visibility in parts of North America during the 2024 eclipse.—
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Until one moment spoiled everything.—
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For any of us who have ever nursed private, unseemly doubts or jealousies, Arnett is a tonic.—
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Ineke Zeldenrust, international coordinator for the Clean Clothes Campaign, a witness signatory of the Accord, has long nursed a sense of foreboding about where worker safety is headed in Bangladesh.—
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Seibert’s niece, said her uncle indulged his love of travel the past three years, even going on a road trip to his old haunts in Washington, Idaho and Montana.—
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As for whether whims like that need to be indulged, Mayer, perhaps not surprisingly, is on the side of the talent.—
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Eric didn’t deserve to be gunned down, and the system failed him — the system that felt that juveniles needed to be coddled.—
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Call us coddled, or sensitive snowflakes, or whatever.—
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Perez himself is known to prefer that players are not pampered or allowed too much leeway.—
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Get pampered at Enchantment Resort Sedona has no shortage of spa and wellness resorts, and one of the most acclaimed of these spots is in Boynton Canyon, one of the city's four major vortexes.—
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“Babied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babied. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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