Crossword clues for desex
The Collaborative International Dictionary
desex \desex\ v. t. to make infertile, especially by removing or incapacitating the sexual organs; -- used of both males and females.
Syn: sterilize, unsex, desexualize, fix.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization.
WordNet
v. make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized" [syn: sterilize, sterilise, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix]
Usage examples of "desex".
Since I intentionally desexed them entirely, even to parthenogenesis, I found this a bit thick.
I remember all too clearly the advice you gave me about Willis in Red Planet and how I should "consult a good Freudian" -- in consequence, I most carefully desexed the creatures completely.
In her mind men had been desexed, neutralized, of no importance to her.
They're locked up in desexed chunks of metal and plastic where no men can get at them.
It effectively desexed the male until his genital area should grow back, which took about two years, roughly, by Earth time—long enough for the single Albenareth offspring to be bom and learn to travel with comfort upright on its two legs.
It effectively desexed the male until his genital area should grow back, which took about two years, roughly, by Earth time-long enough for the single Albenareth offspring to be bom and learn to travel with comfort upright on its two legs.
Human xenobiologists had theorized that in prehistoric times the evolutionary principle behind the desexing of the Albenareth "male" had been to ensure his protection and assistance to the particular "female" carrying his progeny, during the vulnerable period before she and it were fully able to take care of themselves.
Human xenobiologists had the orized that in prehistoric times the evolutionary principle behind the desexing of the Albenareth "male" had been to ensure his protection and assistance to the particular "female" carrying his progeny, during the vulnerable period before she and it were fully able to take care of themselves.
The desexing wasn't necessary, and from an evolutionary viewpoint was actually undesirable.