VASECTOMIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vasectomize mean? 

• VASECTOMIZE (verb)
  The verb VASECTOMIZE has 1 sense:

1. remove the vas deferens

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VASECTOMIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they vasectomize    ... he / she / it vasectomizes   
Past simple: vasectomized   
Past participle: vasectomized   
-ing form: vasectomizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the vas deferens

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

vasectomise; vasectomize

Context example:

many men choose to be vasectomized as a form of safe birth control

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

desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex (make infertile)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

vasectomy (surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization); is sometimes reversible)