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SEXUALIZE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they sexualize ... he / she / it sexualizes
Past simple: sexualized
-ing form: sexualizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to
Example:
Some languages sexualize all nouns and do not have a neuter gender
Synonyms:
sexualise; sexualize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "sexualize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody