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)
- To flirt with or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously.
- 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.
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