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cater, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, spoil, baby, caress, cherish, cuddle, dandle, fondle

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pam⋅per

[pam-per]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.

2.	Archaic. to overfeed, esp. with very rich food; glut.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME pamperen < MD; cf. D dial. pamperen

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Language Translation for : Pamper

Spanish:

mimar, consentir,

German:

verhätscheln,

Japanese:

甘やかす

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pam·per (pām'pər) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers

To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child.
To give in to; gratify: He pampered his ambition for wealth and fame.
Archaic To indulge with rich food; glut.

[Middle English pamperen, probably of Low German origin.]
pam'per·er n.

Synonyms: These verbs all mean to cater excessively to someone or to his or her desires or feelings. To pamper is to gratify appetites, tastes, or desires: "He was pampering the poor girl's lust for singularity and self-glorification" (Charles Kingsley).
Indulge suggests a kindly or excessive lenience in yielding especially to wishes or impulses better left unfulfilled: "You musn't think because I indulge you in some things that you can keep everyone waiting" (Theodore Dreiser).
Humor implies compliance with or accommodation to another's mood or idiosyncrasies: "Human life is . . . but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep" (William Temple).
Spoil implies excessive indulgence that adversely affects the character, nature, or attitude: "He seems to be in no danger of being spoilt by good fortune" (George Gissing).
Coddle and mollycoddle point to tender, overprotective care that often leads to weakening of character: "I would not coddle the child" (Samuel Johnson). Stop mollycoddling me; I'm a grown person.
Baby suggests the indulgence and attention one might give to an infant: "I should like to be made much of, and tended—yes, babied" (Adeline D.T. Whitney).

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pamper

c.1380, "to cram with food," probably from M.Du. (cf. W.Flem. pamperen "cram with food, overindulge;" dial. Ger. pampen "to cram"), probably from freq. of base of pap (q.v.). Meaning "to overindulge" first attested 1530.

pamper
verb
treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

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.]

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.

2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. --South.