Standard Lemma guide

sodomise

verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsɒdəmaɪz/
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1

verb

Meaning 1

To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • 2016, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Birth of a Dream Weaver, New York and London: The New Press, Chapter 6, pp. 85-86, There are only a few whispers here and there, and sometimes one or two who are so crazed by the experience that they talk—of torture [...] but they don’t give details. [...] Men too, sodomized with bottles; some, their testicles crushed, nor can they talk about it, except when the “craziness” overtakes them.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bugger

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, transitive

Examples

  • 1986, Hanif Kureishi, The Rainbow Sign in My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign, London: Faber and Faber, Chapter 2, p. 18, ‘I tell you, this country is being sodomized by religion. It is even beginning to interfere with the making of money. [...] ’

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

Examples

  • 1601, W. I., The Whipping of Satyre, London: John Flasket, “The Pilgrims Story,” For if this Land be Sodomiz’d with sinne, It’s not your lots to be at Lots therein.
  • 1865, John Langdon Dudley, Discourse Preached in the South Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct., Middletown: D. Barnes, p. 12, An inspiration that is infernal enough to organize a conspiracy to overthrow this government, for the purpose of establishing on its ruins the odious and sodomizing empire of Slavery, is bad enough, and mean enough, to be a cowardly assassin.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

Examples

  • 1657, John Cragge, A Cabinet of Spirituall Jewells, London: H. Twyford et al., “Of the Expediency of Marriage,” p. 170, [...] Corah and his complices sodomized in a new Asphaltic gulph, for counter-censuring Moses and Aaron;
  • 1659, Christopher Clobery, Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse, London: James Cottrel, “The Charge,” pp. 141-142, [...] daring impudence! Enough to make Heaven blush at the offence, And pour down thunder-bolts of indignation, To root for ever hence our Name and Nation, To puff us off like th’atoms of a feather, And Sodomize us into Hell together.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

practice anal sex upon

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sodomize, bugger

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: copulate, mate, pair, couple

8

verb

Meaning 8

copulate with an animal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sodomize

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: copulate, mate, pair, couple

History

Etymology

From sodomy + -ise.

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: لَاطَ (lāṭa) — to engage in anal sex
  • Catalan: sodomitzar — to engage in anal sex
  • Chichewa: kuthányula — to engage in anal sex
  • Chinese Mandarin: 雞姦 /鸡奸 (jījiān) — to engage in anal sex
  • Finnish: harrastaa sodomiaa — to engage in anal sex
  • Finnish: harrastaa anaaliyhdyntää — to engage in anal sex
  • Finnish: pakottaa anaaliyhdyntään — to engage in anal sex
  • French: sodomiser — to engage in anal sex
  • German: sodomisieren — to engage in anal sex
  • Italian: sodomizzare — to engage in anal sex
  • Latin: pēdīcō — to engage in anal sex
  • Maltese: ssodomizza — to engage in anal sex
  • Polish: uprawiać seks analny — to engage in anal sex
  • Portuguese: sodomizar — to engage in anal sex
  • Spanish: culear — to engage in anal sex
  • Spanish: encular — to engage in anal sex
  • Spanish: sodomizar — to engage in anal sex
  • Swahili: -fira — to engage in anal sex
  • Swahili: -lawiti — to engage in anal sex
  • Chinese Mandarin: 獸姦 /兽奸 (shòujiān) — to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal
  • Finnish: sekaantua eläimiin — to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal
  • German: sodomisieren — to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal