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womanize

/ˈwʊmənaɪz/

womanize verb: to flirt with or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously.

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...
    • Another bolt passed between Iucharba's legs, nearly womanizing him with its blast of heat. "EEEeeeYOW!" he howled.2000, Randy Lee Eickhoff, The sorrows, page 84

Examples of womanize in a sentence

  • Samson himself is a gender paradox: while the focus on his hair links him with the women he pursues, it is also the source of his masculine strength, whose loss womanizes him.2000, Claudia V. Camp, Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible, page 104:
  • Following this line of thinking, Musidorus charges that Pyrocles' infatuation threatens to 'womanize' him2008, Wendy Olmsted, The Imperfect Friend: Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton and their Contexts:

Forms of womanize

third-person singular presentwomanizes
present participlewomanizing
past participlewomanized
pastwomanized
alternative formwomanise

Origin of womanize

From woman + -ize.

Words formed from womanize

Questions about womanize

What does womanize mean?
Womanize means to flirt with or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously.
How do you use womanize in a sentence?
Samson himself is a gender paradox: while the focus on his hair links him with the women he pursues, it is also the source of his masculine strength, whose loss womanizes him.
What part of speech is womanize?
Womanize is a verb.
How do you pronounce womanize?
Womanize is pronounced /ˈwʊmənaɪz/.
What is the past tense of womanize?
The past tense of womanize is womanized.

Words near womanize in the dictionary

  1. womanistic
  2. womanists
  3. womanity
  4. womanization
  5. womanizations
  6. womanize
  7. womanized
  8. womanizer
  9. womanizers
  10. womanizes
  11. womanizin'

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