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Synonyms for coddle
ˈkɒd lcod·dle
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
coddle
To caress is less than to embrace; more dignified and less familiar than to fondle. A visitor caresses a friend's child; a mother fondles her babe. Fondling is always by touch; caressing may be also by words, or other tender and pleasing attentions.
See synonyms for AFFRONT.
Synonyms:
caress, court, embrace, flatter, fondle, kiss, pamper, petPreposition:
Caressed by or with the hand; caressed by admirers, at court.
Princeton's WordNet
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulgeverb
treat with excessive indulgence
"grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
Synonyms:
pamper, frustrate, scotch, botch, bilk, baby, itch, bungle, muck up, impair, mishandle, bumble, plunder, gratify, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, flub, fumble, vitiate, rape, thwart, ball up, featherbed, bollocks up, bollocks, screw up, baffle, mess up, luxuriate, despoil, deflower, louse up, bollix, mar, indulge, muff, violate, pander, cocker, foul up, cross, fluff, mollycoddle, bobble, bollix up, cosset, spoil, corrupt, bodgecoddleverb
cook in nearly boiling water
"coddle eggs"
Synonyms:
cosset, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge, baby, cocker, featherbed, pamper
Dictionary of English Synonymes
coddleverb
Synonyms:
parboil, boil slightlycoddleverb
Synonyms:
humor, coax, cajole, wheedle, court, STUFF, pay court to, fawn upon, curry favor with, try to win by adulationcoddleverb
Synonyms:
fondle, caress, pet, treat with fondness, make much of
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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List of paraphrases for "coddle":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#608 | court | |
#669 | baby | |
#772 | mar | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1605 | rape | |
#1803 | pet | |
#2540 | blow | |
#3971 | humor | |
#4200 | nurse | |
#4618 | kiss | |
#10795 | embrace | |
#10816 | foil | |
#11969 | corrupt | |
#12746 | violate | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#20396 | indulge | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#25560 | impair | |
#26507 | itch | |
#26944 | bobble | |
#27618 | cocker | |
#28828 | bumble | |
#29630 | fluff | |
#30892 | fumble | |
#31815 | pamper | |
#33911 | muff | |
#35865 | caress | |
#35995 | flatter | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#37254 | plunder | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#53610 | bollocks | |
#63134 | bungle | |
#81018 | pander | |
#87051 | gratify | |
#93814 | fondle | |
#99054 | featherbed | |
#104177 | botch | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#121624 | vitiate | |
#162842 | coddle | |
#169405 | luxuriate | |
#220019 | flub | |
#228192 | despoil | |
#231784 | bodge | |
#284974 | deflower | |
#315643 | mishandle |
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