homosexualizev.
/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəlʌɪz/, /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃᵿlʌɪz/, /ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈsɛksjʊ(ə)lʌɪz/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəlʌɪz/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃᵿlʌɪz/, /ˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈsɛksjʊ(ə)lʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlaɪz/, /ˌhoʊmoʊˈsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlaɪz/ transitive. To make (a person, institution, etc.) homosexual in nature, character or associations; to portray as homosexual.
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1930 F. Dell Love in Machine Age vi. 101 She turns to her child for emotional satisfaction.., and if the child is a boy homosexualizes him by making him a pet or ‘mama's lover’.
1961 M. Rosenberg Masks of Othello xiii. 181 Olivier's curious attempt to homosexualize Iago may have failed because the conception was too narrow.
1996 Amer. Imago 53 288 The magnetic attraction..that holds the two men together throughout the novel..emphasizes the degree to which Nabokov homosexualized the English revision.
2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 6 Dec. (Green Guide) 24 This plays into the idiotic but persistent notion there's a ‘gay agenda’ to recruit children by ‘homosexualising’ public schools.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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