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womanizing

womanizing is the present participle and gerund 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...

Questions about womanizing

What is womanizing the present participle and gerund of?
Womanizing is the present participle and gerund of womanize.

Words near womanizing in the dictionary

  1. womanized
  2. womanizer
  3. womanizers
  4. womanizes
  5. womanizin'
  6. womanizing
  7. womankind
  8. womanless
  9. womanlessness
  10. womanlier
  11. womanliest

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