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desex
(redirected from desexed)

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de·sex  (d-sks)
tr.v. de·sexed, de·sex·ing, de·sex·es
To remove part or all of the reproductive organs of; neuter.
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Verb1.desex - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix
neuter, spay, castrate, alter - remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate, castrate - remove the testicles of a male animal
vasectomise, vasectomize - remove the vas deferens; "many men choose to be vasectomized as a form of safe birth control"
operate on, operate - perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"


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As West notes, "The dominant myths draw black women and men either as threatening creatures who have the potential for sexual power over whites, or as harmless, desexed underlings of a white culture" (119).
Traveling identities: mixed race quests and Fran Ross's Oreo by Leverette, Tru / African American Review
In his love letters to Angelina Grimke in 1838, Theodore Dwight Weld did something one would not expect from a man courting a woman: he repeatedly desexed his fiance in his rhetoric (and at moments even imaginatively remade her into a man) by conflating her with a male friend of his, Charles Stuart.
'The forgetfulness of sex': devotion and desire in the courtship ... by Journal of Social History
Deneuve, who often looks handsome in her Jean Paul Gaultier getups, kisses her De Merteuil with icy cool, but a distracted and desexed bitch on wheels is a contradiction in terms and hardly what the job description requires.
French flop: the always-stunning Catherine Deneuve can't save this ... by Rebello, Stephen / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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