pamper
/'pæmpə/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To treat with excessive indulgence or care: To give someone, especially a child or pet, an excessive amount of attention, comfort, or luxury, often to the point of spoiling them.
- To cater to someone's every desire: To allow someone to have or do whatever they want, often without setting reasonable limits.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- The grandparents love to pamper their grandchildren with gifts and sweets.
- After a long week, she decided to pamper herself with a spa day.
- You shouldn't pamper your dog with table scraps; it's not good for his health.
Advanced Usage
- "to be pampered": To be the recipient of excessive indulgence or luxury.
- As a guest at the luxury resort, she was thoroughly pampered.
- "pampering" (gerund/noun form): The act of indulging someone or oneself.
- A weekend of pampering was exactly what she needed.
Variants and Related Words
- Pampered (adj): Having been treated with excessive indulgence.
- He grew up as a pampered only child.
- Pamperer (n): A person who pampers others. (Less common)
- Pampering (adj): Designed to provide luxurious comfort or indulgence.
- The hotel offers a range of pampering treatments.
Synonyms
- Indulge: To allow oneself or another to enjoy a desired pleasure.
- Spoil: To harm someone's character by being too lenient or indulgent.
- Coddle: To treat in an overprotective or excessively indulgent way.
- Cosset: To care for and protect in an overindulgent way.
- Baby: To treat like a baby, with excessive care.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions
(Note: "Pamper" is not typically used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. The verb is generally used transitively.) - Pamper someone with something: To indulge someone by giving them a lot of a particular thing. - They pampered the visitors with fine food and wine.
Related Idioms
- Live in the lap of luxury / Be pampered in the lap of luxury: To live in a state of great wealth and comfort.
- On the cruise, we lived in the lap of luxury and were pampered by the staff.
Verb
- treat with excessive indulgence
- grandparents often pamper the children
- Let's not mollycoddle our students!