womanize
Americanverb (used with object)
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womanizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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womanized,
past participle, past
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womanizing
present participle
verb (used without object)
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womanizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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womanized,
past participle, past
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womanizing
present participle
verb
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(intr) (of a man) to indulge in many casual affairs with women; philander
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(tr) to make effeminate
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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womanizesimple
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womanizessimple
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have womanizedperfect
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has womanizedperfect
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am womanizingprogressive
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are womanizingprogressive
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is womanizingprogressive
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have been womanizingperfect progressive
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has been womanizingperfect progressive
Past
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womanizedsimple
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had womanizedperfect
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was womanizingprogressive
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were womanizingprogressive
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had been womanizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of womanize
Example Sentences
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“Out! Out! Out! Leave me be and go womanize someone else!”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
He was dissatisfied, and to her hearing it was hardly in the tone of manliness that he entreated her to reassure him; he womanized his language.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
A softening shade has womanized the bold brow of Madge, and her red lip has a more subdued tint.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
The flesh and spirit of femininity surround him from the first like the four walls of a house; and even the vaguest or most brutal man has been womanized by being born.
From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Charlie, meanwhile, sets out to ensure that Lady Jemima’s suitor, the ne’er-do-well Thomas Smythe-Roberts, is revealed as a womanizing cad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
In 1989, Texas Republican John Tower’s reputation for womanizing and drinking got him rejected as President George H.W.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
“Lady Killer” stars the leonine Jean Gabin as Lucien, a womanizing legionnaire.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
A feminist lens might notice Oppenheimer's womanizing as a contradiction within the film.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2023
“There’s this shift from the view of the chef as the macho, womanizing Marco Pierre White brute to, like, ‘Hey, I’m a nerdy tinkerer... and I love taking things apart and putting them back together.’”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023
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