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facialized

facialized is the simple past and past participle of facialize.

Meaning of facialize

Verb

facialize (third-person singular simple present facializes, present participle facializing, simple past and past participle facialized)

  1. (rare) To put a face to; to give a face.
    • Palestinians, Arabs were facialized, given the face of Saddam Hussein, […]1992, Orientalism and cultural differences, page 30
  2. (rare) To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features. (Compare e.g. anthropomorphize.)
    • The process of facializing the forest, of structuring it around the rhetorical figure of prosopopoesis — from the Greek prosopon, "face," and poiein, "to make" — […]2008, Stuart Kane, “The Green Man and the Facial Machine”, in Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern, page 43
  3. (rare) To give a facial (sex act) to.
    • Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized2006 September 27, cha...@hushmail.com, “Hardcore indian sex, Brittney skye facial cum, Monica sweetheart enjoys slurping”, in alt.sex.nfs (Usenet)
  4. (rare) To give a facial (personal beauty treatment) to.
    • […] a manicure and, if time permits, a pedicure. I'm lying on the elevated table in one of the private rooms waiting for Helga, the skin technician, to facialize me.1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 114

Questions about facialized

What is facialized the simple past and past participle of?
Facialized is the simple past and past participle of facialize.

Words near facialized in the dictionary

  1. facial yoga
  2. facialist
  3. facialists
  4. faciality
  5. facialize
  6. facialized
  7. facializes
  8. facializing
  9. facially
  10. facialness
  11. facials

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