coddled
past simple and past participle ofcoddle
coddle
verb[T]
uk/ˈkɒd.əl/us/ˈkɑː.dəl/coddleverb[T](COOK)
tocookfood,especiallyeggs, inwaterjust belowboilingtemperature:
coddledeggs
Preparing food using heat
- air fryer
- bain-marie
- baking
- baking parchment
- barbecue
- blanch
- boil
- deep fat fryer
- deep-fried
- deep-fry
- done
- doneness
- overcook
- overdone
- pan-fry
- parboil
- poach
- sear
- underdone
- warm(someone/something)up
coddleverb[T](PROTECT)
toprotectsomeone or something too much:
Thesteelindustryis coddled bytradeprotectionandmassivesubsidies.
Synonyms
babyinformal
cosset
indulge
mollycoddleinformalmainlydisapproving
pamper
spoil
Defending and protecting
- anti-bug
- anti-mosquito
- baby
- bandobast
- bastion
- buffer
- defence
- defend
- defensive
- harbour
- harm
- have (got)someone'sbackidiom
- hold off
- inoculation
- killsomeonewith kindnessidiom
- sheltered
- shield
- splashproof
- takesomeoneunderyourwingidiom
- watchyourbackidiom
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Treating someone well
Examplesofcoddled
coddled
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Thosecoddledpeoples will finally learn to stand up to labor unions, demand more from workers, lower taxes, and abandon their bloated social welfare benefits.
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For a century, industry and agriculture in the interior wascoddledand protected by the national state.
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The texts of the plays were so passionatelycoddledthroughout that the subtext got suffocated in the embrace.
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It is not true to say that our people arecoddledinto a state of apathy and have no sense of duty to their country.
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Is my boy, or the boys of other people, to die while they remain here pampered andcoddled?
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We do not take the view that the nationalised industries have to becoddled—quite the opposite.
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They are not asking to becoddled, but they point out that they simply cannot compete with a rice-bowl economy.
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A first-year student going into a school for teaching practice is usually quitecoddled.
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It is the poor, decrepit, old railways that must always becoddled.
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It has been too kindly; it hascoddledthese people who have too much of their own way, and we have been laughed at as a nation.
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Government hascoddled, accepted, and ignored white-collar crime for too long, he testified.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The temperature was hot, and the band members were used to being left alone, if notcoddled, by the prison staff.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the past, recipes called for coddling fruit, but in recent times the term is usually only applied tocoddledeggs.
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- repaired
- repairer
- repair facility
- repairing
- repairing lease
- repairing-lease
- repairman
- repair mechanism
- repair mechanism
- repair shop
- repair-to
- repair to somewhere
- repair-to-somewhere
- repair work
- reparable
- reparation
- reparations
- repark
- repartee
- repast
- repatch
- repatriate
- repatriated
- repatriating
- repatriation