"babify" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From baby + -fy.",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2000, David Kowalewski, Deep Power: The Political Ecology of Wilderness and Civilization, →ISBN, page 21:",
          "text": "Civilizational elites infantilize nonelites to keep them powerless. By letting elites babify us, we lose power.",
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          "ref": "2006, Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, chapter 3, in The Brat Stops Here!: 5 Weeks (or Less) to No More Tantrums, Arguing, Or Bad Behavior, →ISBN, page 61:",
          "text": "If you continue to indulge you child, babify him, or take away the consequences for her irresponsible behavior, you can rest assured that in the long run you will not produce a respectful, dependable adult.",
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        "To encourage another to behave like a baby; to infantilize."
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          "baby",
          "baby"
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          "infantilize",
          "infantilize"
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  "word": "babify"
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  "etymology_text": "From baby + -fy.",
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    {
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "babifying",
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