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DESEX
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they desex ... he / she / it desexes
Past simple: desexed
Past participle: desexed
-ing form: desexing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make infertile
Example:
in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
Synonyms:
desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "desex" is one way to...):
operate; operate on (perform surgery on)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "desex"):
alter; castrate; neuter; spay (remove the ovaries of)
castrate; demasculinise; demasculinize; emasculate (remove the testicles of a male animal)
vasectomise; vasectomize (remove the vas deferens)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
