adultize
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English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]adultize (third-person singular simple present adultizes, present participle adultizing, simple past and past participle adultized)
- (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.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to raise a child such that he adopts adult behaviors earlier
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]adultize
- inflection of adultizar: