sodomise

present singular third person sodomises · participle present sodomising · participle past sodomised · past sodomised · alternative British English Oxford US sodomize

1. transitiveTo engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).

   […] 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

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   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

   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

   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.

   Synonyms: bugger

2. transitiveTo 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. intransitiveTo commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.

   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

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   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

4. figurativelytransitiveTo 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. […] ’

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   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

   […] 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

5. obsoletetransitiveTo cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom.

   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.

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   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

   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. obsoletetransitiveTo cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).

   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;

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   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.