| VERB | possession | unsex | deprive of sex or sexual powers |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | unsex | remove the qualities typical of one's sex | |
| body | unsex, sterilize, sterilise, desex, desexualize, desexualise, fix | make infertile |
| Meaning | deprive of sex or sexual powers. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Broader | deprive, strip, divest | take away possessions from someone |
| Spanish | asexuar | |
| Meaning | Remove the qualities typical of one's sex. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "She unsexed herself" | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Meaning | make infertile. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | sterilize, sterilise, desex, desexualize, 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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