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DESEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does desex mean? 

DESEX (verb)
  The verb DESEX has 1 sense:

1. make infertileplay

  Familiarity information: DESEX used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DESEX (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they desex  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it desexes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: desexed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: desexed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: desexing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make infertile

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex

Context example:

in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized

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


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