Pamper \Pam"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pampered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Pampering.] [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live
luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.]
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1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to
pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered
for corruption." --Dr. T. Dwight.
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2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to
pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. --South.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pamper
v : treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
[syn: featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle,
mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
WordNet (r) 2.0
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 to
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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