pamper

Verb

Synonyms: featherbed cosset cocker baby coddle mollycoddle spoil indulge

WordNet 3.0

Verb (1)

treat with excessive indulgence“grandparents often pamper the children”“Let's not mollycoddle our students!”Synonyms: featherbed cosset cocker baby coddle mollycoddle spoil indulge

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

2.To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. --South. [1913 Webster]