unsex

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verb

1. deprive of sex or sexual powers
• Hypernyms:
deprive, strip, divest
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. remove the qualities typical of one's sex
- She unsexed herself
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
3. make infertile
- in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
• Syn:
sterilize, sterilise, desex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
• Derivationally related forms:
fixing (for: fix), sterilisation (for: sterilise), sterilization (for: sterilize)
• Hypernyms:
operate on, operate
• Hyponyms:
alter, neuter, spay, castrate, emasculate,
demasculinize, demasculinise, vasectomize, vasectomise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody