neuter; damage sexuality
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Unsex Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutTo 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.
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.
unsex
v
1. deprive of sex or sexual powers
2. remove the qualities typical of one's sex; "she unsexed herself"
3. make infertile; of both males and females [syn: sterilize, sterilise, desex, desexualize, fix]
Verb
1. deprive of sex or sexual powers
(hypernym) deprive, strip, divest
2. remove the qualities typical of one's sex; "She unsexed herself"
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
3. make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized"
(synonym) sterilize, sterilise, desex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
(hypernym) operate on, operate
(hyponym) alter, neuter, spay, castrate
