Antonyms for coddle
ˈkɒd lcod·dle

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1. coddleverb

   To treat gently or with great care.

   Synonyms:
   pamper, cosset, posset

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1. coddle

   To caress is less than to embrace; more dignified and less familiar than to fondle. A visitor caresses a friend's child; a mother fondles her babe. Fondling is always by touch; caressing may be also by words, or other tender and pleasing attentions.

   See synonyms for AFFRONT.

   Synonyms:
   caress, court, embrace, flatter, fondle, kiss, pamper, pet

   Preposition:
   Caressed by or with the hand; caressed by admirers, at court.

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1. coddle

   Synonyms:
   spoil, humor, pamper, nurse, caress

Matched Categories

1. • Cook
   • Cookery

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1. pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulgeverb

   treat with excessive indulgence

   "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

   Synonyms:
   pamper, frustrate, scotch, botch, bilk, baby, itch, bungle, muck up, impair, mishandle, bumble, plunder, gratify, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, flub, fumble, vitiate, rape, thwart, ball up, featherbed, bollocks up, bollocks, screw up, baffle, mess up, luxuriate, despoil, deflower, louse up, bollix, mar, indulge, muff, violate, pander, cocker, foul up, cross, fluff, mollycoddle, bobble, bollix up, cosset, spoil, corrupt, bodge

2. coddleverb

   cook in nearly boiling water

   "coddle eggs"

   Synonyms:
   cosset, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge, baby, cocker, featherbed, pamper

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1. coddleverb

   Synonyms:
   parboil, pamper, fondle, cocker, humor, indulge

How to use coddle in a sentence?

1. Tom Meadows:

   There’s a time to coddle, a time to be positive, but sometimes you’ve got to hold the law, you tell them, ‘You say you want to do this? Well let’s go.'.

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