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oversexualizing

oversexualizing is the present participle and gerund of oversexualize.

Meaning of oversexualize

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

Questions about oversexualizing

What is oversexualizing the present participle and gerund of?
Oversexualizing is the present participle and gerund of oversexualize.

Words near oversexualizing in the dictionary

  1. oversexedness
  2. oversexualization
  3. oversexualize
  4. oversexualized
  5. oversexualizes
  6. oversexualizing
  7. oversexy
  8. overshade
  9. overshaded
  10. overshades
  11. overshading

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