"womanize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈwʊmənaɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-womanize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: womanizes [present, singular, third-person], womanizing [participle, present], womanized [participle, past], womanized [past]
Etymology: woman + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|woman|ize}} woman + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} womanize (third-person singular simple present womanizes, present participle womanizing, simple past and past participle womanized)
  1. (intransitive, said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously. Tags: intransitive Translations (seduce women lecherously): הִתְפַּרְפֵּר (hitparpér) [slang] (Hebrew)
    Sense id: en-womanize-en-verb-zybvHo-S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 85 15 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 75 25 Disambiguation of 'seduce women lecherously': 93 7
  2. (transitive, usually figuratively) To turn into a woman; to feminize. Tags: figuratively, transitive, usually
    Sense id: en-womanize-en-verb-ORTpohgg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: womanise (english: non-Oxford British spelling) Derived forms: womanizer, womaniser

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