oversexualize

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verb

To sexualize excessively.

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Meanings

verboversexualize (third-person singular simple present oversexualizes, present participle oversexualizing, simple past and past participle oversexualized)

present singular third person oversexualizes · participle present oversexualizing · participle past oversexualized · past oversexualized

  1. transitiveTo 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

Origin

From over- + sexualize.

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APA

oversexualize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversexualize

MLA

“oversexualize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversexualize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oversexualize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversexualize.

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