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desexualize
Overview of verb desexualize
The verb desexualize has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. desexualize, desexualise -- (direct one's libidinous urges into another direction)
2. sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix -- (make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized")
Antonyms of verb desexualize
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb desexualize
2 senses of desexualize
Sense 1
desexualize, desexualise
=> sublimate
=> redirect, airt
=> send, direct
=> move, displace
Sense 2
sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
=> operate on, operate
=> treat, care for
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb desexualize
1 of 2 senses of desexualize
Sense 2
sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
=> alter, neuter, spay, castrate
=> emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
=> vasectomize, vasectomise
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb desexualize
2 senses of desexualize
Sense 1
desexualize, desexualise
=> sublimate
Sense 2
sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
=> operate on, operate
'Cause To' of verb desexualize
Derived Forms of verb desexualize
Domain of verb desexualize
Domain Terms of verb desexualize
Familiarity of verb desexualize
desexualize used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb desexualize
2 senses of desexualize
Sense 1
desexualize, desexualise
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb desexualize
2 senses of desexualize
Sense 1
desexualize, desexualise
> sublimate
=> desexualize, desexualise
Sense 2
sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
> operate on, operate
=> sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
=> face-lift, lift
=> trephine
=> venesect
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb desexualize
Sense 1
desexualize, desexualise
=> sublimate
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Sense 2
sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
=> operate on, operate
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Grep of verb desexualize
desexualize
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