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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make erotic.

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  • verb transitive To make erotic.

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  • verb give erotic character to or make more interesting

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Examples

  • If a young girl is deprived of an accepting and loving father, she may become uncomfortable with intimacy, needy and afraid to lose any love she finds, go to the extreme and eroticize her terror of loss.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • They eroticize their dependent longings, and these needs become valued above all others.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • The automotive conquest of a continent, with all the empowering industrialization and economic prowess needed to eroticize and politicize the automobile and the road, remains the greatest collaboration between the poet-artist and the engineer.

    G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

  • The automotive conquest of a continent, with all the empowering industrialization and economic prowess needed to eroticize and politicize the automobile and the road, remains the greatest collaboration between the poet-artist and the engineer.

    G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

  • If a young girl is deprived of an accepting and loving father, she may become uncomfortable with intimacy, needy and afraid to lose any love she finds, go to the extreme and eroticize her terror of loss.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • The automotive conquest of a continent, with all the empowering industrialization and economic prowess needed to eroticize and politicize the automobile and the road, remains the greatest collaboration between the poet-artist and the engineer.

    G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

  • They eroticize their dependent longings, and these needs become valued above all others.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • They piggyback America's innate patriotism and eroticize war.

    The Piggyback Virus 2010

  • We could eroticize public life rather than make it appear too chaste.

    Thomas Moore: Not Enough Sex Thomas Moore 2010

  • We could eroticize public life rather than make it appear too chaste.

    Thomas Moore: Not Enough Sex Thomas Moore 2010

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