Dictionary

sodomise en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɒdəmaɪz/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From sodomy + -ise.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
   • 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.
   • Young Tyler was sent off to English boarding school at an early age to be sodomized and otherwise inculcated into the British establishment. 1999, Christopher Buckley, chapter 2, in Little Green Men, New York: Random House, page 20:
   • 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; 1820, George Colman, The Rodiad, London: Cadell, page 35:
   • […] some men also found that it [amyl nitrite] relaxed their anal sphincters, enabling them more comfortably to be sodomised. 2001, Richard Davenport-Hines, chapter 5, in The Pursuite of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, 1500-2000, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 102:
2. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.
   • 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. 1975, Salman Rushdie, Grimus, St. Albans: Granada, published 1977, Part 2, Chapter 39, p. 160:
3. (intransitive) To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.
   • 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, 1641, anonymous author, The Life and Death of John Atherton Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lysmore, London:
   • Our Spartan in his early twenties has for some years had a male lover, and they sodomize together. 1968, Colin Simpson, chapter 7, in Greece: The Unclouded Eye, New York: Fielding Publications, page 229:
4. (figuratively, transitive) To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
   • 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. […] ’
   • […] she looked around the empty rooms and faced, and knew, and ate, and got rightly sodomised by, her shame. 2002, Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch, London: Vintage, published 2003, page 57:
   • Well, he’d been wrong, hadn’t he […] thought Dover, reducing speed to avoid sodomizing an articulated truck which had decided to leap into the centre lane. 1980, Colin Smith, chapter 3, in The Cut-Out, New York: Viking, published 1981, page 19:
5. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom.
   • The depravity of manners, the scandalous indecency and obscenity of Lincoln’s own daily conversation [i.e. lifestyle], seems to have fallen like a fatal epidemic upon the people. He has Sodomized the nation. 1864 September, “What will come of re-electing Lincoln”, in The Old Guard, volume 2, number 9, page 199:
   • 1601, W. I., The Whipping of Satyre, London: John Flasket, “The Pilgrims Story,” For if this Land be Sodomiz’d with sinne, It’s not your lots to be at Lots therein.
   • 1865, John Langdon Dudley, Discourse Preached in the South Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct., Middletown: D. Barnes, p. 12, An inspiration that is infernal enough to organize a conspiracy to overthrow this government, for the purpose of establishing on its ruins the odious and sodomizing empire of Slavery, is bad enough, and mean enough, to be a cowardly assassin.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).
   • 1659, Christopher Clobery, Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse, London: James Cottrel, “The Charge,” pp. 141-142, […] daring impudence! Enough to make Heaven blush at the offence, And pour down thunder-bolts of indignation, To root for ever hence our Name and Nation, To puff us off like th’atoms of a feather, And Sodomize us into Hell together.
   • 1657, John Cragge, A Cabinet of Spirituall Jewells, London: H. Twyford et al., “Of the Expediency of Marriage,” p. 170, […] Corah and his complices sodomized in a new Asphaltic gulph, for counter-censuring Moses and Aaron;

Forms

Deriveds

sodomizer · sodomization

Synonyms

bugger

Translations (22)

ca sodomitzar (to engage in anal sex) · it sodomizzare (to engage in anal sex) · sw -fira (to engage in anal sex) · fr sodomiser (to engage in anal sex) · fi harrastaa anaaliyhdyntää (to engage in anal sex) · de sodomisieren (to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal) · es sodomizar (to engage in anal sex) · cmn 獸姦 /兽奸 (to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal) · fi pakottaa anaaliyhdyntään (to engage in anal sex) · mt ssodomizza (to engage in anal sex) · fi harrastaa sodomiaa (to engage in anal sex) · de sodomisieren (to engage in anal sex) · cmn 雞姦 /鸡奸 (to engage in anal sex) · pt sodomizar (to engage in anal sex) · ar لَاطَ (to engage in anal sex) · fi sekaantua eläimiin (to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal) · sw -lawiti (to engage in anal sex) · pl uprawiać seks analny (to engage in anal sex) · es encular (to engage in anal sex) · la pēdīcō (to engage in anal sex) · es culear (to engage in anal sex) · ny kuthányula (to engage in anal sex)