DEMASCULINIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demasculinize mean? 

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

1. remove the testicles of a male animal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMASCULINIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they demasculinize    ... he / she / it demasculinizes   
Past simple: demasculinized   
Past participle: demasculinized   
-ing form: demasculinizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the testicles of a male animal

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

castrate; demasculinise; demasculinize; emasculate

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

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

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "demasculinize"):

caponise; caponize (convert a cock into a capon)

cut; geld (cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses))

Sentence frames:

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