Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.

    verwöhnen

    treat with excessive indulgence

  2. (intransitive)To engage in featherbedding; to employ more workers than necessary to fulfill a labor union requirement.

    hire more workers than are necessary

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle:

Forms

featherbeds, featherbedding, featherbedded, featherbedded
Base formfeatherbed · to featherbed
3rd person singularfeatherbeds
Present participlefeatherbedding
Past simplefeatherbedded
Past participlefeatherbedded

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfeatherbed
he, she, itfeatherbeds

Past simpleLesson

all personsfeatherbedded

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill featherbed

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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