Facialize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1
To put a face to; to give a face. rare
"Palestinians, Arabs were facialized, given the face of Saddam Hussein, […]"
2
To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features. (Compare e.g. anthropomorphize.) rare
"The process of facializing the forest, of structuring it around the rhetorical figure of prosopopoesis — from the Greek prosopon, "face," and poiein, "to make" — […]"
3
To give a facial (sex act) to. rare
"Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized"
4
To give a facial (personal beauty treatment) to. rare
"[…] a manicure and, if time permits, a pedicure. I'm lying on the elevated table in one of the private rooms waiting for Helga, the skin technician, to facialize me."

Example

"Palestinians, Arabs were facialized, given the face of Saddam Hussein, […]"

Etymology

From facial + -ize.

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