Meaning

1 senses

  1. To lose, or to remove, feminine characteristics or qualities

More definitions
  • remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)

Origin

From de- + feminize.

From de- + feminize.

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Forms

defeminizes, defeminizing, defeminized, defeminized
Base formdefeminize · to defeminize
3rd person singulardefeminizes
Present participledefeminizing
Past simpledefeminized
Past participledefeminized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydefeminize
he, she, itdefeminizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsdefeminized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave defeminized
he, she, ithas defeminized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill defeminize

Synonyms

2 synonyms
unwomanize
Close in meaning
  • remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats):defeminise

Word family

2 related words
Relatedemasculate
Deriveddefeminization

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
defectivedefectordefenceB1defendB1defendant
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