DESEXUALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does desexualize mean? 

• DESEXUALIZE (verb)
  The verb DESEXUALIZE has 2 senses:

1. direct one's libidinous urges into another direction

2. make infertile

  Familiarity information: DESEXUALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESEXUALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they desexualize    ... he / she / it desexualizes   
Past simple: desexualized   
Past participle: desexualized   
-ing form: desexualizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Direct one's libidinous urges into another direction

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

desexualise; desexualize

Hypernyms (to "desexualize" is one way to...):

sublimate (direct energy or urges into useful activities)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

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 "desexualize" is one way to...):

operate; operate on (perform surgery on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "desexualize"):

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