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sensualize

sensualize verb: to make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure.

Verb

sensualize (third-person singular simple present sensualizes, present participle sensualizing, simple past and past participle sensualized)

  1. (transitive) To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure.
    • By that one neglect [of prayer], thy thoughts are sensualized.1839, Thomas Harvey Skinner, Religion of the Bible: In Select Discourses
    • Not to suffer oneself to be sensualized by pleasures1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

Forms of sensualize

third-person singular presentsensualizes
present participlesensualizing
past participlesensualized
pastsensualized
alternative formsensualise

Origin of sensualize

From sensual + -ize.

Words formed from sensualize

Questions about sensualize

What does sensualize mean?
Sensualize means to make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure.
What part of speech is sensualize?
Sensualize is a verb.
What is the past tense of sensualize?
The past tense of sensualize is sensualized.

Words near sensualize in the dictionary

  1. sensualists
  2. sensualities
  3. sensuality
  4. sensualization
  5. sensualizations
  6. sensualize
  7. sensualized
  8. sensualizes
  9. sensualizing
  10. sensuall
  11. sensually

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