Synonyms of the word unsex


UNSEXALTER - CHANGE - DEPRIVE - DESEX - DESEXUALISE - DESEXUALIZE - DIVEST - FIX - MODIFY - OPERATE - STERILISE - STERILIZE - STRIP

unsex

  • v. To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics.
  • v. To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

deprive

  • v. To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.

desex

  • v. (transitive) To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization.

desexualise

  • v. Alternative spelling of desexualize.

desexualize

  • v. (transitive) To divest of sexual attributes; to make conceptually asexual.

divest

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To undress, disrobe.
  • v. (transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege,…
  • v. (transitive) To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.

fix

  • n. A repair or corrective action.
  • n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
  • n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
  • n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
  • n. A determination of location.
  • n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
  • v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
  • v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
  • v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
  • v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
  • v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
  • v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
  • v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  • v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

operate

  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical;…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
  • v. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner,…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

sterilise

  • v. (British and Commonwealth): To sterilize.

sterilize

  • v. To deprive of the ability to procreate.
  • v. To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
  • v. (biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and…

strip

  • n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
  • n. A comic strip.
  • n. A landing strip.
  • n. A strip steak.
  • n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  • n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  • n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  • n. Striptease.
  • n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
  • n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
  • v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
  • v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
  • v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  • v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
  • v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  • v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
  • v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
  • v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
  • v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
  • v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  • v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  • v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  • v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
  • v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

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