unsex

Verb

Verb Forms: unsexed, unsexing, unsexes

• To deprive of sexual characteristics or identity.
• deprive of sex or sexual powers
• remove the qualities typical of one's sex
  • "She unsexed herself"
• make infertile
• To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics.
• To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.

Examples

• Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth famously urged spirits to unsex her for her dark deeds.

Synonyms

desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize