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desex
[ dee-seks ]
verb (used with object)
- Veterinary Surgery. to castrate or spay.
- to deprive of sex, sex appeal, or sexual interest.
- to remove elements of sexism from; degenderize:
a campaign to desex business writing.
Example Sentences
It called for desexing the English language, replacing 鈥減oliceman鈥 with 鈥減olice officer鈥 and 鈥渟tewardess鈥 with 鈥渇light attendant.鈥
Moreover, large numbers of individual dogs will be unable to reproduce because they have been desexed, and so even if individuals manage to survive, they will be at a genetic dead end.
Their latest study, which is not yet published, examined 35 breeds and mutts and detected no associations between desexing and cancers or joint disorders in small dogs.
In the novel, Ruth desexes herself, as surely as Lady Macbeth, going from woman to self-described she-devil.
Are parents just tame animals, housebroken and desexed?
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