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What is the verb for paternalize?

What's the verb for paternalize? Here's the word you're looking for.

paternalize
  1. (transitive) To make paternal; to place in a fatherly role.
  2. control organizations, things etc. disregarding people's freedom and responsibility under guise and pretense of knowing what would be good and proper for them
paternalise
  1. Alternative spelling of paternalize
paternalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paternalise
paternalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paternalize
paternalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of paternalise
paternalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of paternalize
paternalizing
  1. present participle of paternalize
paternalising
  1. present participle of paternalise
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