Meaning of facialize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To put a face to; to give a face.
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2. To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features. (Compare e.g. anthropomorphize.)
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3. To give a facial (sex act) to.
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4. To give a facial (personal beauty treatment) to.
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Examples

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

“Likewise, this trend in the public sphere to put "faces" on social problems has the paradoxical effect of making the faces generic and not individual: thus the facializing gesture that promotes identification across the spaces of alterity is, in effect, an equivocal challenge to shift the political and cultural boundaries of what will count politically as human.”

“[…] a Shell official handed a representative from each organization a gigantic symbolic check amid the flash of cameras, and they appeared as grateful recipients of Shell's outsized generosity. This image was reproduced in the publicity sent to people who were removed from the political grounds in Dock Sud and helped facialize the company in benevolent terms to people far away from Argentina, […]”

“Collaging a woman's face on top of the original page offers Mutu the possibility to facialize the medical text.”

“The process of facializing the forest, of structuring it around the rhetorical figure of prosopopoesis — from the Greek prosopon, "face," and poiein, "to make" — […]”

“Second, it enables us to see landscape as facial, that is, to naturalize the face or facialize nature.”

“Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized”

“Yeah, you blew it with America 's sweetheart, but guys like us really only want to deflower, defile, sodomize, and facialize a good-girl sweetheart anyway.”

“[…] 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.”

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