incestualize
incestualize verb: to make incestual.
Verb
incestualize (third-person singular simple present incestualizes, present participle incestualizing, simple past and past participle incestualized)
- To make incestual
- It is true in this case that it doesn't matter whether Beth Winters was sexually assaulted or incestualized by her father.1984, Milton Silverman, Open and Shut, Page 324
- The object of the vision is successively sexualized, incestualized, made into an originary source and presence, and lost.1985, S Peterfreund, Between desire and nostalgia: Intertextuality in Shelley's Alastor and two shorter poems from the Alastor volume, link
Examples of incestualize in a sentence
- Eolo complains that Maria has "incestualized" her relationship with their son, and in the next breath invites her to go with him to Jamaica, a free and exciting land.2006, Jill Scharff, New Paradigms for Treating Relationships, Volume 13, page 74
- ... discusses the unresolved oedipal conflicts that occur when parents incestualize their interactions with their children.2011, Jillmarie Murphy, Monstrous Kinships, page 40
Forms of incestualize
| third-person singular present | incestualizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | incestualizing |
| past participle | incestualized |
| past | incestualized |
| alternative form | incestualise |
Origin of incestualize
From incestual + -ize.
Questions about incestualize
- What does incestualize mean?
- Incestualize means to make incestual.
- How do you use incestualize in a sentence?
- Eolo complains that Maria has "incestualized" her relationship with their son, and in the next breath invites her to go with him to Jamaica, a free and exciting land.
- What part of speech is incestualize?
- Incestualize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of incestualize?
- The past tense of incestualize is incestualized.
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