lesbianize
English
Alternative forms
- lesbianise
Etymology
From lesbian + -ize.
Verb
lesbianize (third-person singular simple present lesbianizes, present participle lesbianizing, simple past and past participle lesbianized)
- (transitive) To make lesbian.
- 1993, Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women, Bello 2014, p. 128:
- Thus the poem lesbianises a myth of heterosexual conflict.
- 1993, Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women, Bello 2014, p. 128:
Derived terms
- lesbianization