noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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In my case the signs were apparently unmistakable even in my early infancy .
■ VERB
die
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They had two sons and five daughters, two of whom died in infancy .
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He fathered eight children, two of whom died in infancy .
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Two of their five sons and one of their four daughters died in infancy .
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Several children were born to the couple, but all of them died in infancy .
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Their two children died in infancy .
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Of 23 children with the disease studied worldwide in 1987, 15 died in infancy .
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They had one son and a daughter who died in infancy .
survive
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Most of these babies, put out to wet nurses, failed to survive infancy .
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Poor children who survived infancy were predictably shorter and thinner than others and the differential widened as they grew older.
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Two younger brothers did not survive infancy .
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No information survives about Charles's infancy .