Womanize

Alternative forms

• womanise non-Oxford British spelling

Origin

woman + -ize

Full definition of womanize

Verb

1. (intransitive, said of a man) To seduce women, especially lecherously.
2. (transitive, usually figuratively) To turn into a woman; to feminize.
• Phillip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
• The sorrows
• Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible
• The Imperfect Friend: Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton and their Contexts

Derived terms

• womanizer, womaniser