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sexualize

especially British, ···

[sek-shoo-uh-lahyz, seks-yoo-]

verb (used with object)

sexualized, sexualizing 
  1. to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.



sexualize

/ ˈɛʊəˌɪ /

verb

  1. to make or become sexual or sexually aware

  2. to give or acquire sexual associations

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • sexualization noun
  • desexualize verb (used with object)
  • ˌܲˈپDz noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sexualize1

First recorded in 1830–40; sexual + -ize
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Example Sentences

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In that televised sideshow, Greene accused PBS of “sexualizing and grooming children.”

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Gilbert, a staff writer at the Atlantic, meticulously documents the explosion of highly sexualized content in mainstream American culture.

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The latter is partly crafted to appeal to men, with its heavily sexualized fantasies of a woman devoted to domestic servitude.

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Trump officials and supporters flip that analysis, saying that families and students have been harmed by a radical left-wing agenda — one that also prematurely sexualizes children and indoctrinates them to change their gender.

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In her opener, Greene also cited a 2015 “Frontline” documentary that followed transgender kids and their families, making the vile suggestion of it being evidence of public television allegedly “sexualizing and grooming children.”

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