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third-person singular simple present sexualizes, present participle sexualizing, simple past and past participle sexualized
(transitive) To render sexual, or apply sex appeal to an individual or concept. quotations examples
I have charted a change from a Victorian culture that spiritualized love to modern efforts to sexualize love. The latter contributed, more-over, to the development of a culture of eroticism.
1991, Steven Seidman, Romantic Longings, page 121
(biology, transitive) To distinguish as belonging to separate sexes.