eroticize

American  

[ih-rot-uh-sahyz] / ɪˈrɒt əˌsaɪz /

especially British, eroticise

verb (used with object)

eroticized, eroticizing

1. to render or make erotic.

   a painting eroticized with voluptuous figures and symbols.

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eroticize British  

/ ɪˈrɒtɪˌsaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to regard or present in a sexual way

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Other Word Forms

• eroticization noun

Etymology

Origin of eroticize

First recorded in 1910–15; erotic + -ize

Example Sentences

The girls perform highly provocative and eroticized dance numbers while scantily clad.

From Fox News

They include the masterpiece “The Dream” - a highly eroticized portrait of a sleeping Marie-Therese Walter, who was the artist’s mistress at the time.

From Reuters

The Mexican romantic comedy of errors “Tales of an Immoral Couple” divides its time frame between the sexed-up flush of first passionate love and the strain of intrusive, eroticized nostalgia for those brash, younger days.

From Los Angeles Times

Even more than a Hitchcockian tone, Peele recaptures and reanimates the spirit of the films of Luis Buñuel, whose surrealistically eroticized Catholic heritage made him a supremely sly Freudian symbolist.

From The New Yorker

The 25-foot-long canvas shows a reclining, sheet-draped man, evoking associations with martyrs in art history and the sacrificed, eroticized bodies of contemporary black men.

From Seattle Times