Found 2 items, similar to Unsex.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: unsex
unsex
v 1: deprive of sex or sexual powers
2: remove the qualities typical of one's sex;
“She unsexed
herself”
3: make infertile;
“in some countries, people with genetically
transmissible disbilites are sterilized” [syn:
sterilize,
sterilise,
desex,
desexualize,
desexualise,
fix]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Unsex
Unsex
\Un*sex"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Unsexed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Unsexing.] [1st pref. un- + sex.]
To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex;
esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or
the like; as, to unsex a woman.
[1913 Webster]