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womanise

womanise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of womanize.

Meaning of womanize

Verb

womanize (third-person singular simple present womanizes, present participle womanizing, simple past and past participle womanized)

  1. (intransitive) To flirt with or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously.
  2. (figuratively, transitive, usually) To turn into a woman; to feminize.
    • [T]his effeminate loue of a wõman, doth ſo womanize a man, that (if hee yeeld to it) it will not onely make him an Amazon; but a launder, a diſtaff-ſpinner; or what ſo euer other vile occupation their idle heads can imagin and their weake hands performe.a. 1587, Philip Sidney, “The First Booke”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1593, →OCLC...

Forms of womanise

third-person singular presentwomanises
present participlewomanising
past participlewomanised
pastwomanised

Origin of womanise

From woman + -ise.

Words formed from womanise

Questions about womanise

What is womanise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Womanise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of womanize.

Words near womanise in the dictionary

  1. womanifestoes
  2. womanifestos
  3. womaning
  4. womaning up
  5. womanipulation
  6. womanise
  7. womanised
  8. womaniser
  9. womanisers
  10. womanises
  11. womanish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: womanise (page history and authors); womanize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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