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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. deprive of sex or sexual powers;

2. remove the qualities typical of one's sex;
- Example: "She unsexed herself"

3. make infertile;
- Example: "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
[syn: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unsex v 1: deprive of sex or sexual powers 2: remove the qualities typical of one's sex; "She unsexed herself" 3: make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" [syn: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix]