"sodomise" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈsɒdəmaɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sodomise.wav Forms: sodomises [present, singular, third-person], sodomising [participle, present], sodomised [participle, past], sodomised [past]
Etymology: From sodomy + -ise. Etymology templates: {{af|en|sodomy|-ise}} sodomy + -ise Head templates: {{en-verb}} sodomise (third-person singular simple present sodomises, present participle sodomising, simple past and past participle sodomised)
  1. (transitive) To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent). Tags: transitive Synonyms: bugger
    Sense id: en-sodomise-en-verb-fiMkD6p1 Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 15 14 22 7 15 26
  2. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality. Tags: transitive Translations (to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal): 獸姦 (Chinese Mandarin), 兽奸 (shòujiān) (Chinese Mandarin), sekaantua eläimiin (Finnish), sodomisieren (German)
    Sense id: en-sodomise-en-verb-lGtAEgNI Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 15 14 22 7 15 26 Disambiguation of 'to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal': 16 63 16 2 2 2
  3. (intransitive) To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex. Tags: intransitive Translations (to engage in anal sex): لَاطَ (lāṭa) (Arabic), 雞姦 (Chinese Mandarin), 鸡奸 (jījiān) (Chinese Mandarin), harrastaa sodomiaa (english: sodomy in general) (Finnish), harrastaa anaaliyhdyntää (english: engage in anal sex) (Finnish), pakottaa anaaliyhdyntään (english: force into anal sex) (Finnish), sodomiser (French), sodomisieren (German), sodomizzare (Italian), pēdīcō (Latin), ssodomizza (Maltese), uprawiać seks analny [imperfective] (Polish), -fira (Swahili), -lawiti (Swahili)
    Sense id: en-sodomise-en-verb-YBqWi2Ej Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 15 14 22 7 15 26 Disambiguation of 'to engage in anal sex': 24 13 58 1 2 1
  4. (transitive, figurative) To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind). Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-sodomise-en-verb-h5TfOUwo
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-sodomise-en-verb-tHoTE~JU Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 15 14 22 7 15 26
  6. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment). Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-sodomise-en-verb-Buk5Bly2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ise, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Maltese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swahili translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 5 12 6 7 48 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ise: 19 9 13 12 13 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 15 14 22 7 15 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 15 7 10 10 16 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 17 6 10 10 17 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 14 7 9 8 15 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 18 7 10 10 16 40 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 15 9 12 11 13 40 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 16 8 10 10 11 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 17 7 11 9 15 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 16 8 10 9 10 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 16 8 10 9 10 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Maltese translations: 17 7 10 10 17 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 19 12 13 10 16 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 15 7 10 14 19 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 17 6 10 9 18 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 18 7 10 10 16 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 16 8 10 9 10 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 17 6 10 9 18 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 16 8 10 10 11 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Swahili translations: 14 8 9 9 16 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sodomize [British, English, Oxford, US] Derived forms: sodomization, sodomizer

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1986, Hanif Kureishi, The Rainbow Sign in My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign, London: Faber and Faber, Chapter 2, p. 18,\n‘I tell you, this country is being sodomized by religion. It is even beginning to interfere with the making of money. […] ’"
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          "ref": "1864 September, “What will come of re-electing Lincoln”, in The Old Guard, volume 2, number 9, page 199",
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          "text": "1865, John Langdon Dudley, Discourse Preached in the South Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct., Middletown: D. Barnes, p. 12,\nAn 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."
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          "text": "1659, Christopher Clobery, Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse, London: James Cottrel, “The Charge,” pp. 141-142,\n[…] daring impudence!\nEnough to make Heaven blush at the offence,\nAnd pour down thunder-bolts of indignation,\nTo root for ever hence our Name and Nation,\nTo puff us off like th’atoms of a feather,\nAnd Sodomize us into Hell together."
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    "British English forms",
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ise",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hindi translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Maltese translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swahili translations"
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    {
      "word": "sodomization"
    },
    {
      "word": "sodomizer"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sodomy",
        "3": "-ise"
      },
      "expansion": "sodomy + -ise",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sodomy + -ise.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sodomises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sodomising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sodomised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sodomised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sodomise (third-person singular simple present sodomises, present participle sodomising, simple past and past participle sodomised)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1820, George Colman, The Rodiad, London: Cadell, page 35",
          "text": "Propose to scourge the diabolic flesh,\nFor ever tortured and for ever fresh;\nCut up with red-hot wire adulterous Queens,\nMan-burning Bishops, Sodomizing Deans;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Christopher Buckley, chapter 2, in Little Green Men, New York: Random House, page 20",
          "text": "Young Tyler was sent off to English boarding school at an early age to be sodomized and otherwise inculcated into the British establishment.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Richard Davenport-Hines, chapter 5, in The Pursuite of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, 1500-2000, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 102",
          "text": "[…] some men also found that it [amyl nitrite] relaxed their anal sphincters, enabling them more comfortably to be sodomised.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2016, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Birth of a Dream Weaver, New York and London: The New Press, Chapter 6, pp. 85-86,\nThere 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sodomy",
          "sodomy"
        ],
        [
          "anal",
          "anal sex"
        ],
        [
          "oral",
          "oral sex"
        ],
        [
          "penetrator",
          "penetrator"
        ],
        [
          "consent",
          "consent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bugger"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, Salman Rushdie, Grimus, St. Albans: Granada, published 1977, Part 2, Chapter 39, p. 160",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intercourse",
          "intercourse"
        ],
        [
          "bestiality",
          "bestiality"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1641, anonymous author, The Life and Death of John Atherton Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lysmore, London",
          "text": "Suppose a Devill from th’infernall Pit,\nMore Monsterlike, then ere was Devill yet,\nContrary to course, taking a male fiend\nTo Sodomize with him, such was the mind\nOf this Lord Bishop,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Colin Simpson, chapter 7, in Greece: The Unclouded Eye, New York: Fielding Publications, page 229",
          "text": "Our Spartan in his early twenties has for some years had a male lover, and they sodomize together.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sodomy",
          "sodomy"
        ],
        [
          "anal sex",
          "anal sex"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Colin Smith, chapter 3, in The Cut-Out, New York: Viking, published 1981, page 19",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1986, Hanif Kureishi, The Rainbow Sign in My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign, London: Faber and Faber, Chapter 2, p. 18,\n‘I tell you, this country is being sodomized by religion. It is even beginning to interfere with the making of money. […] ’"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch, London: Vintage, published 2003, page 57",
          "text": "[…] she looked around the empty rooms and faced, and knew, and ate, and got rightly sodomised by, her shame.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humiliation",
          "humiliation"
        ],
        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
        ],
        [
          "damage",
          "damage"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1601, W. I., The Whipping of Satyre, London: John Flasket, “The Pilgrims Story,”\nFor if this Land be Sodomiz’d with sinne,\nIt’s not your lots to be at Lots therein."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1864 September, “What will come of re-electing Lincoln”, in The Old Guard, volume 2, number 9, page 199",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1865, John Langdon Dudley, Discourse Preached in the South Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct., Middletown: D. Barnes, p. 12,\nAn 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "proverbially",
          "proverbial"
        ],
        [
          "sinful",
          "sinful"
        ],
        [
          "biblical",
          "biblical"
        ],
        [
          "Sodom",
          "Sodom"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1657, John Cragge, A Cabinet of Spirituall Jewells, London: H. Twyford et al., “Of the Expediency of Marriage,” p. 170,\n[…] Corah and his complices sodomized in a new Asphaltic gulph, for counter-censuring Moses and Aaron;"
        },
        {
          "text": "1659, Christopher Clobery, Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse, London: James Cottrel, “The Charge,” pp. 141-142,\n[…] daring impudence!\nEnough to make Heaven blush at the offence,\nAnd pour down thunder-bolts of indignation,\nTo root for ever hence our Name and Nation,\nTo puff us off like th’atoms of a feather,\nAnd Sodomize us into Hell together."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swallowed up",
          "swallow up"
        ],
        [
          "buried",
          "bury"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɒdəmaɪz/"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "English",
        "Oxford",
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "sodomize"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "lāṭa",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "لَاطَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "雞姦"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jījiān",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "鸡奸"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "sodomy in general",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "harrastaa sodomiaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "engage in anal sex",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "harrastaa anaaliyhdyntää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "force into anal sex",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "pakottaa anaaliyhdyntään"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "sodomiser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "sodomisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "sodomizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "pēdīcō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "ssodomizza"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "uprawiać seks analny"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "-fira"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "to engage in anal sex",
      "word": "-lawiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal",
      "word": "獸姦"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shòujiān",
      "sense": "to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal",
      "word": "兽奸"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal",
      "word": "sekaantua eläimiin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal",
      "word": "sodomisieren"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sodomise"
}
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  "msg": "unrecognized head form: non-Oxford British English",
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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "sodomise",
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