Definition of "eroticize" [eroticize]

• To make erotic. (verb-transitive)

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