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Unsex

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To deprive of sexual capacity or sexual attributes.

v. To castrate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics

v. To sterilize

v. To castrate

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To deprive of sex or of sexual characters; make otherwise than the sex commonly is; transform in respect to sex; usually, with reference to a woman, to deprive of the qualities of a woman; make masculine.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. remove the qualities typical of one's sex

v. deprive of sex or sexual powers

v. make infertile

Word Usage

"Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection."

Verb Form

unsexed unsexes unsexing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter divest deprive strip

Form

unsexed unsexing