Meaning

(transitive) To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
2. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.
3. (intransitive) To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.
4. (transitive, figurative) To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
5. (transitive, obsolete) To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).

Example Sentences

2016, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Birth of a Dream Weaver, New York and London: The New Press, Chapter 6, pp. 85-86, There are only a few whispers here and there, and sometimes one or two who are so crazed by the experience that they talk—of torture […] but they don’t give details. […] Men too, sodomized with bottles; some, their testicles crushed, nor can they talk about it, except when the “craziness” overtakes them.

Propose to scourge the diabolic flesh, For ever tortured and for ever fresh; Cut up with red-hot wire adulterous Queens, Man-burning Bishops, Sodomizing Deans;

Young Tyler was sent off to English boarding school at an early age to be sodomized and otherwise inculcated into the British establishment.

[…] some men also found that it [amyl nitrite] relaxed their anal sphincters, enabling them more comfortably to be sodomised.

The donkey was bellowing because the Two-Time Kid […] was in the process of sodomizing it, and even for a docile donkey, there are limits.

Suppose a Devill from th’infernall Pit, More Monsterlike, then ere was Devill yet, Contrary to course, taking a male fiend To Sodomize with him, such was the mind Of this Lord Bishop,

Our Spartan in his early twenties has for some years had a male lover, and they sodomize together.

1986, Hanif Kureishi, The Rainbow Sign in My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign, London: Faber and Faber, Chapter 2, p. 18, ‘I tell you, this country is being sodomized by religion. It is even beginning to interfere with the making of money. […] ’

Word Forms

• sodomises
• sodomising
• sodomised
• sodomize

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Use sodomise when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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