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From lesbian +‎ -ize.

Verb edit

lesbianize (third-person singular simple present lesbianizes, present participle lesbianizing, simple past and past participle lesbianized)

  1. (transitive) To make lesbian.
    • 1993, Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women, Bello, published 2014, page 128:
      Thus the poem lesbianises a myth of heterosexual conflict.

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