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sodomising

sodomising is the present participle and gerund of sodomise.

Meaning of sodomise

Verb

sodomise (third-person singular simple present sodomises, present participle sodomising, simple past and past participle sodomised)

  1. (transitive) To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
    • Propose to scourge the diabolic flesh,
      For ever tortured and for ever fresh;
      Cut up with red-hot wire adulterous Queens,
      Man-burning Bishops, Sodomizing Deans;1820, George Colman, The Rodiad, London: Cadell, page 35
    Synonyms:
    bugger
  2. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.
    • The donkey was bellowing because the Two-Time Kid […] was in the process of sodomizing it, and even for a docile donkey, there are limits.1975, Salman Rushdie, Grimus, St. Albans: Granada, published 1977, Part 2, Chapter 39, p. 160
  3. (intransitive) To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.
    • Suppose a Devill from th’infernall Pit,
      More Monsterlike, then ere was Devill yet,
      Contrary to course, taking a male fiend
      To Sodomize with him, such was the mind
      Of this Lord Bishop,1641, anonymous author, The Life and Death of John Atherton Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lysmore, London
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
    • Well, he’d been wrong, hadn’t he […] thought Dover, reducing speed to avoid sodomizing an articulated truck which had decided to leap into the centre lane.1980, Colin Smith, chapter 3, in The Cut-Out, New York: Viking, published 1981, page 19
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom.
    • For if this Land be Sodomiz’d with sinne,
      It’s not your lots to be at Lots therein.1601, W. I., The Whipping of Satyre, London: John Flasket, “The Pilgrims Story,”
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).
    • […] Corah and his complices sodomized in a new Asphaltic gulph, for counter-censuring Moses and Aaron;1657, John Cragge, A Cabinet of Spirituall Jewells, London: H. Twyford et al., “Of the Expediency of Marriage,” p. 170

Questions about sodomising

What is sodomising the present participle and gerund of?
Sodomising is the present participle and gerund of sodomise.

Words near sodomising in the dictionary

  1. sodomise
  2. sodomised
  3. sodomiser
  4. sodomisers
  5. sodomises
  6. sodomising
  7. sodomist
  8. sodomistic
  9. sodomists
  10. sodomite
  11. sodomites

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