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Definition of Desexualize
1. Verb. Direct one's libidinous urges into another direction.
2. Verb. Make infertile. "In some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
Specialized synonyms: Alter, Castrate, Neuter, Spay, Castrate, Demasculinise, Demasculinize, Emasculate, Vasectomise, Vasectomize
Generic synonyms: Operate, Operate On
Derivative terms: Fixing, Sterilisation, Sterilization
Definition of Desexualize
1. Verb. (transitive) To divest of sexual attributes; to make conceptually asexual. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desexualize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desexualize
| deserving(p) deservingly deservingness deservings desetope desferrioxamine desferrioxamine mesylate desflurane deshabille deshabilles | deshelving deshi deshielding deshieldings deshopper deshoppers |
Literary usage of Desexualize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly, United States Congress Senate (1921)
"I repeatedly have urged .the Superintendents of the institutions to take advantage
of the present law and desexualize all persons who would be fit to return ..."
2. Woman from Bondage to Freedom by Ralcy Husted Bell (1922)
"The numbing hardships of poverty, with its wretched deprivations, desexualize
hordes of human beings early in life. ..."
3. Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses by Léon Henri Thoinot, Arthur Wisswald Weysse (1911)
"... but it is none the less a fetich, if you are willing, as we said above, to
enlarge the group of fetiches and desexualize fetichism. ..."
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