to sexualize
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7.5
- verb
- /ˈsɛkʃuəˌlaɪz/
- NSFW
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sexualizar
- While her body was highly sexualized, Storm herself remains, during this time period, chaste.
- highly sexualized
- sexualized and objectified
- sexualized display
So I was like my God and sexualized as a kid.
- So I was like my God and sexualized as a kid.
- I remember somewhat being sexualized with a female cousin.
- It's not sexual 'cause you sexualize a naked woman.
- It's not sexual because you sexualize a naked woman.
- And the way she's explaining it is so sexualized.
- Her life revolves around her crushes and sexualizing men.
- Is it also a bit twisted in that they sexualize us?
- Now I feel like at least I'm not being I'm being sexualized.
- But a lot of what you see from, like, an outsider's perspective is like, super sexualizing, like little schoolgirls.
- Sexual sexualizing our kids is now OK.
- So it's basically women being being sexualized by tentacles very aggressively too.
- When you're young, dude, sexualize on a spectrum.
- I when we when we walk, that's the craziest analogy ever, but you're like sexualized.
Examples
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So many female journalists are objectified or sexualized.
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There is no doubting that there are highly sexualized manga being produced and distributed in Japan.
Academic text (2015) -
It's like she has to sexualize every experience, you know?
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- There was a study that showed now girls as young as six years old have learned to self sexualize.
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You don't have to sexualize it.
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Additionally, the females in the highly sexualized/objectified condition were more likely to rate the female as responsible for the date rape.
Academic text (2012) -
You're always going to have tons of sexualized violence against women in your media.
Blog text (6) -
Many proponents, namely Bill O'Reilly, say the doll can over-sexualize young girls or force them.
Blog text (1) -
You don't have any concern about sexualizing them through this in a, in a way that they're presented inappropriately.
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The media often tends to sexualize young women in their reporting.
Synonyms
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9.1
To make something seem sexual to attract attention
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8.4
Make something more attractive or exciting by adding sexual details
Make something seem mainly about physical or sexual pleasure and lower its moral value
Antonyms
How Sexual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sexualize comes from sexual (from sex), which means 'relating to sex or gender', plus the ending -ize that means 'to make' or 'to turn into'. So, to sexualize something is to make it sexual or to show it in a sexual way.