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oversexualize

oversexualize verb: to sexualize excessively.

Verb

oversexualize (third-person singular simple present oversexualizes, present participle oversexualizing, simple past and past participle oversexualized)

  1. (transitive) To sexualize excessively.
    • The latest iteration of Unilever’s “Real Beauty” advertising campaign for Dove products, which celebrates women of all shapes and sizes, urges girls to reject the underfed and oversexualized images of women that dominate advertising.2007 October 15, Andrew Adam Newman, “Unilever Shuns Stereotypes of Women (Unless Talking to Men)”, in New York Times

Forms of oversexualize

third-person singular presentoversexualizes
present participleoversexualizing
past participleoversexualized
pastoversexualized

Origin of oversexualize

From over- + sexualize.

Questions about oversexualize

What does oversexualize mean?
Oversexualize means to sexualize excessively.
What part of speech is oversexualize?
Oversexualize is a verb.
What is the past tense of oversexualize?
The past tense of oversexualize is oversexualized.

Words near oversexualize in the dictionary

  1. oversewn
  2. oversews
  3. oversexed
  4. oversexedness
  5. oversexualization
  6. oversexualize
  7. oversexualized
  8. oversexualizes
  9. oversexualizing
  10. oversexy
  11. overshade

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