PAMPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pamper mean? 

• PAMPER (verb)
  The verb PAMPER has 1 sense:

1. treat with excessive indulgence

  Familiarity information: PAMPER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAMPER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pamper    ... he / she / it pampers   
Past simple: pampered   
Past participle: pampered   
-ing form: pampering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat with excessive indulgence

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

baby; cocker; coddle; cosset; featherbed; indulge; mollycoddle; pamper; spoil

Context example:

Let's not mollycoddle our students!

Hypernyms (to "pamper" is one way to...):

do by; handle; treat (interact in a certain way)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

pamperer (someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence)

pampering (the act of indulging or gratifying a desire)

 Context examples 

To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You may be invited to an event, and if so, it is likely to be quite luxurious, for Venus rules pampering experiences.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But he had saved himself by not becoming a mere pampered house-dog.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Do you remember when, in his inheritance of your nature, and in your pampering of his pride and passion, he did this, and disfigured me for life?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is for this that these men mortify their flesh, and to set us an example, who would pamper ourselves overmuch.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The full moon will be in luxury-minded Leo, so any event you attend will be beautiful, and you will feel pampered like royalty.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under or the over dressing of a dish, the incident ought not to be neutralised by replacing with something more delicate the comfort lost, thus pampering the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The transiting moon will be in Leo, so you will be in the mood for luxury and some pampering—choose a festive restaurant for a memorable dinner.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)