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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb pamper has 1 sense
- pamper(v = verb.social) baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, spoil - treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" is one way to do by, handle, treat
Derived forms noun pamperer1, noun pampering1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
pamper, v. t. [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.].
- To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. Dr. T. Dwight. [1913 Webster]
- To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. South. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pamper, v.tr.
1 overindulge (a person, taste, etc.), cosset.
2 spoil (a person) with luxury.
1 overindulge (a person, taste, etc.), cosset.
2 spoil (a person) with luxury.
Derivative
pamperer n.
Etymology
ME, prob. of LG or Du. orig.
THESAURUS
pamper
baby, care for, caress, cater to, cherish, cocker, coddle, cosset, cradle, cultivate, dandle, dry-nurse, favor, feed, fondle, foster, give way to, gratify, humor, indulge, lavish care on, mollycoddle, mother, much, nourish, nurse, nurture, oblige, overindulge, pet, please, regale, satisfy, spoil, spoon-feed, suckle, sustain, tickle, wet-nurse, yield toROGET THESAURUS
pamper
Gluttony
N gluttony, greed, avarice, greediness, voracity, epicurism, good living, high living, edacity, gulosity, crapulence, guttling, guzzling, pantophagy, good cheer, blow out, feast, gastronomy, batterie de cuisine, epicure, bon vivant, gourmand, glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome, gourmet, v, gormandize, gorge, overgorge, overeat oneself, engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff, guttle, guzzle, bolt, devour, gobble up, gulp, raven, eat out of house and home, have the stomach of an ostrich, play a good knife and fork, pamper, gluttonous, greedy, gormandizing, edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish, avaricious, selfish, pampered, overfed, overgorged, jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.Intemperance
VB be intemperate, indulge, exceed, live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog, give a loose to indulgence, wallow in voluptuousness, plunge into dissipation, revel, rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats, slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst, swill, pamper.
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