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unsex

[uhn-seks]

verb (used with object)

to deprive of sexual power; render impotent or frigid; spay or castrate.

to deprive (oneself or another) of the proper or appropriate character and qualities of one's sex, as by unnatural conduct.

Origin:
1595–1605; un-² + sex

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unsex (ʌnˈsɛks)

—vb
	literary chiefly to deprive (a person) of the attributes of his or her sex, esp to make a woman more callous

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