Meaning of UNSEX
| Pronunciation: | | un'seks
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- [v] make infertile; of both males and females
- [v] remove the qualities typical of one's sex; "She unsexed herself"
- [v] deprive of sex or sexual powers
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| | Synonyms: | | desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize |
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| | See Also: | | alter, alter, castrate, change, demasculinise, demasculinize, deprive, divest, emasculate, neuter, operate, operate on, spay, strip, vasectomise, vasectomize | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Un*sex"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Unsexed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Unsexing}.] [1st pref. un- + sex.]
To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex;
esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or
the like; as, to unsex a woman.
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