To make erotic; to give something sexual significance or to treat something as erotic.
From erotic + -ize verb-forming suffix. This is an alternative (less common) form of eroticize, both emerging in late 19th-century English.
Erotize is basically the same as eroticize, showing how English often creates multiple forms of the same word—one eventually becomes dominant (eroticize) while the other (erotize) remains rarer, like evolutionary selection in language.
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