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DEMASCULINISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they demasculinise ... he / she / it demasculinises
Past simple: demasculinised
Past participle: demasculinised
-ing form: demasculinising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the testicles of a male animal
Synonyms:
castrate; demasculinise; demasculinize; emasculate
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "demasculinise" is one way to...):
desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex (make infertile)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "demasculinise"):
caponise; caponize (convert a cock into a capon)
cut; geld (cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
