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to womanize

5 8.4
To have sex with many different women without a serious relationship
  • verb
  • /ˈwʊməˌnaɪz/
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  • He womanized, is, I suppose, the right term.
  • drinking and womanizing
  • drink and womanize
  • men who womanized

He is your classic grimy, scumbag womanizing guy, allegedly.

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Examples

  • I mean, seriously, you had a womanizing pizza guy named Cain.

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  • He tends to womanize, chasing after multiple partners without committing to any of them.

  • My father would womanize; he would drink; he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • l was painting murals and womanizing in peace when you came along.

  • And if he were womanizing, cheating on her, disrespecting her, and she had two little girls, she may well have said enough is enough.

  • Jesse Livermore Junior, his son, went on to live a troubled life of alcohol abuse, violence, womanizing and gambling.

  • In the last episode, Ollie decided to be a thoughtless, womanizing drunk in order to get away with being the Green Arrow.

    Blog text (34)
  • A heartwarming story about a womanizing Viagra salesman who meets his match in a free-spirited Anne Hathaway.

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  • Then, in 2003, Sheen landed the role of a lifetime, playing a thinly disguised version of himself: Charlie Harper, the womanizing songwriter and live-in uncle on Two and a Half Men.

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  • But the opposition candidate—who was supported by the local politicians—had been accused of womanizing and drug use, which, though unproven, gave Ravi the election, despite his lackluster campaign.

    Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

to philander
vsto womanize
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1 9.3

A man who has casual sexual or romantic relationships with many women without wanting a serious relationship

is mainly habitual, focusing on repeated actions rather than intent

How Promiscuous

to womanize
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5 8.4
to sleep around
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10 8.8
to play the field
  • Informal
13 7.7
to flirt
267 3.1
to date
1.3

Surface Forms

womanize infinitive
womanized past
womanized past participle
womanizing present participle
womanizes third person singular

Morphology

womanize = woman (semi-transparent) = woman + ize

The relation to 'woman' is clear, but the conventional meaning 'to have casual sexual relationships with many women' is an idiomatic extension not directly predictable from 'make/more womanly'.

Etymology

Womanize comes from the word woman plus the ending -ize, which means 'to make or to act', just like in organize or realize. So to womanize someone became used for a man who repeatedly has casual sexual relationships with many women, which is the common meaning today.