UNSEX
Dictionary entry overview: What does unsex mean?
• UNSEX (verb)
The verb UNSEX has 3 senses:
1. deprive of sex or sexual powers
2. remove the qualities typical of one's sex
3. make infertile
Familiarity information: UNSEX used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• UNSEX (verb)
Meaning:
Deprive of sex or sexual powers
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "unsex" is one way to...):
deprive; divest; strip (take away possessions from someone)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Remove the qualities typical of one's sex
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
She unsexed herself
Hypernyms (to "unsex" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Make infertile
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
desex; desexualise; desexualize; sterilise; sterilize; unsex; fix
Context example:
in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
Hypernyms (to "unsex" is one way to...):
operate; operate on (perform surgery on)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unsex"):
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
