sexualize
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sexualize (third-person singular simple present sexualizes, present participle sexualizing, simple past and past participle sexualized)
- (transitive) To render sexual, or apply sex appeal to (a person, thing, or concept).
- Children’s beauty pageants sexualize childhood.
- 1991, Steven Seidman, Romantic Longings[1], page 121:
- I have charted a change from a Victorian culture that spiritualized love to modern efforts to sexualize love. The latter contributed, more-over, to the development of a culture of eroticism.
- (biology, transitive) To distinguish as belonging to separate sexes.
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to make sexual
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Galician[edit]
Verb[edit]
sexualize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of sexualizar:
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
sexualize
- inflection of sexualizar: