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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

coddle

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Source Word

coddle

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈkɒdəl/

Verb

transitive

Japanese Meaning

優しく扱う、もしくは大切に扱う / 下火でじっくりと煮る（調理する）

What is this buttons?

She tends to coddle her injured dog, wrapping it in blankets and feeding it by hand.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は負傷した犬を大切に扱うことが多く、毛布で包んで手で餌を与える。

Sense（1）

(transitive) To treat gently or with great care.

How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

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

a coddled egg

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

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

coddles

（ present singular third-person ）

coddling

（ participle present ）

coddled

（ participle past ）

coddled

（ past ）

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