Womanize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈwʊmənaɪz/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Womanize is a verb meaning (intransitive, said of a man) To flirt with or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously.
Meaning
(intransitive, said of a man) To flirt with or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously.
More Meanings
- (transitive, usually figuratively) To turn into a woman; to feminize.
Example Sentences
Another bolt passed between Iucharba's legs, nearly womanizing him with its blast of heat. "EEEeeeYOW!" he howled.
Samson himself is a gender paradox: while the focus on his hair links him with the women he pursues, it is also the source of his masculine strength, whose loss womanizes him.
Love for a woman was believed to produce an especially dangerous kind of effeminacy. Following this line of thinking, Musidorus charges that Pyrocles' infatuation threatens to 'womanize' him
[T]his effeminate loue of a wõman, doth ſo womanize a man, that (if hee yeeld to it) it will not onely make him an Amazon; but a launder, a diſtaff-ſpinner; or what ſo euer other vile occupation their idle heads can imagin and their weake hands performe.
Word Forms
- womanizes
- womanizing
- womanized
- womanise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include womanise, wantonize, gallantize, lewd, wolf, wile.
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