Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To treat gently or with great care.

    verhätscheln, verwöhnen

    treat with excessive indulgence

  2. (transitive)To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.

    a coddled egg

    köcheln

    cook in nearly boiling water

  3. (transitive)To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.

    überbehüten

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Stop coddling these people.

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  2. He's been coddled by fate.

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  3. You shouldn't coddle her so much. She needs to learn to be independent.

    ruТебе не следует с ней так нянчиться. Ей нужно научиться быть независимой. — odexed

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Translations

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By meaning 3
to treat gently or with great care:
to cook slowly in hot water:
To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect:

Origin

Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.

Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.

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Forms

coddles, coddling, coddled, coddled
Base formcoddle · to coddle
3rd person singularcoddles
Present participlecoddling
Past simplecoddled
Past participlecoddled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycoddle
he, she, itcoddles

Past simpleLesson

all personscoddled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave coddled
he, she, ithas coddled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill coddle

Synonyms

10 synonyms
treat gently:cossetC2
spoilB1pamperposset
cook slowly:simmer
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words
Relatedscaldcoddler
Derivedcoddled eggcoddlesomecoddlinglymollycoddleovercoddle

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cocoonC2codB1codeA1codeinecodify
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