| VERB | motion | desexualize, desexualise | direct one's libidinous urges into another direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| body | desexualize, sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualise, fix | make infertile |
| Meaning | direct one's libidinous urges into another direction. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | desexualise | |
| Broader | sublimate | direct energy or urges into useful activities |
| Meaning | make infertile. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualise, fix | |
| Narrower | alter, neuter, spay, castrate | Remove the ovaries of |
| emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise | Remove the testicles of a male animal | |
| vasectomize, vasectomise | Remove the vas deferens | |
| Broader | operate on, operate | Perform surgery on |
| Spanish | capar, castrar, emascular, esterilizar, mutilar | |
| Catalan | esterilitzar | |
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