unsex meaning

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unsex (verb): deprive of sex or sexual powers.

unsex has 3 meanings in this dictionary.

unsex as a verb

  1. deprive of sex or sexual powers

    Type of: deprive

  2. remove the qualities typical of one's sex
    • She unsexed herself

    Type of: change

  3. make infertile
    • in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized

    Synonyms: sterilize, sterilise, desex, desexualize, desexualise, fix

    Type of: operate on

    Kinds: alter, emasculate, vasectomize

Scrabble score: 12 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with UN · words ending in EX · 5-letter words

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