vanitize

present singular third person vanitizes · participle present vanitizing · participle past vanitized · past vanitized

1. ambitransitiveTo embellish for reasons of vanity.

   I don't defend, offend or vanitize my body or appearance so compliments or insults in that area go over my head and past me.

   2006 September 27, <aine_nicneven@hotmail.com>, “Re: ainshe niceneven”, in alt.religion.druid (Usenet)

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   "I told her she was a great goose," said Goda, who like a sensible being was snugly tucked up in bed; "it is a great deal too cold to vanitize."

   1876, Fontnell S. Chad: A Reminiscence, J. Masters and Co., page 43, […] when I went up to administer to Carrie a small lecture on imprudence, the vain child was still at the glass, trying the effect of a pair of earrings on the background of her hair which hung loose round her shoulders […]