eroticize
verb
erot·i·cize
i-ˈrä-tə-ˌsīz 
eroticized; eroticizing
: to make erotic
eroticize the male image
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Bale, Robbie, and Saldaña can eroticize anything, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki makes their avid eyes beam.
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Armond White, National Review, 7 Oct. 2022
Bros shines a light on the parts of gay male culture that seem to idealize and eroticize stereotypical masculinity.
—Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Sep. 2022
Nobody did more to eroticize aviator shades and sideburns than Nez.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2021
And in this drama of opposing forces, through this brutal dialectic, aspects of each woman’s anatomy are grotesquely eroticized by her adversary: buttocks for the black woman, breasts for her white counterpart.
—Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
They’ve been eroticized by Botticelli and vilified by Dickens and Shakespeare since long before Jean Harlow played a home-wrecking seductress in the 1932 film Red Headed Woman.
—Lena Dunham, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2017
Of course, politically incorrect racial fantasia aren’t the only eroticized taboo.
—Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 11 June 2017
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Armond White, National Review, 7 Oct. 2022
Bros shines a light on the parts of gay male culture that seem to idealize and eroticize stereotypical masculinity.
—Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Sep. 2022
Nobody did more to eroticize aviator shades and sideburns than Nez.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2021
And in this drama of opposing forces, through this brutal dialectic, aspects of each woman’s anatomy are grotesquely eroticized by her adversary: buttocks for the black woman, breasts for her white counterpart.
—Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
They’ve been eroticized by Botticelli and vilified by Dickens and Shakespeare since long before Jean Harlow played a home-wrecking seductress in the 1932 film Red Headed Woman.
—Lena Dunham, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2017
Of course, politically incorrect racial fantasia aren’t the only eroticized taboo.
—Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 11 June 2017
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“Eroticize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eroticize. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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eroticize
transitive verb
erot·i·cize
variants
or British eroticise
eroticized or British eroticised; eroticizing or British eroticising
: to make erotic
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