DESEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does desex mean? 

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

1. make infertile

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESEX (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they desex    ... he / she / it desexes   
Past simple: desexed   
Past participle: desexed   
-ing form: desexing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make infertile

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex

Context example:

in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized

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

operate; operate on (perform surgery on)

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

alter; castrate; neuter; spay (remove the ovaries of)

castrate; demasculinise; demasculinize; emasculate (remove the testicles of a male animal)

vasectomise; vasectomize (remove the vas deferens)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody