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oversexualize en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + sexualize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To sexualize excessively.
    • The latest iteration of Unilever’s “Real Beauty” advertising campaign for Dove products, which celebrates women of all shapes and sizes, urges girls to reject the underfed and oversexualized images of women that dominate advertising. 2007 October 15, Andrew Adam Newman, “Unilever Shuns Stereotypes of Women (Unless Talking to Men)”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
oversexualized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
oversexualized Tense=Past lexicographic
oversexualizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
oversexualizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

oversexualization