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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
feminize
verb
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▪ They consider themselves girls, but they consistently reject most of the attempts of the culture to feminize them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feminize

Feminize \Fem"i*nize\, v. t. [Cf. F. f['e]miniser.] To make womanish or effeminate.
--Dr. H. More.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
feminize

1650s, "make feminine or womanish," from Latin femina "woman, a female" (see feminine) + -ize. Related: Feminized; feminizing. Femalize (1670s, intransitive, 1709, transitive) and femininize (1868) are more rare.

Wiktionary
feminize

alt. 1 To make more feminine. 2 To become more feminine. vb. 1 To make more feminine. 2 To become more feminine.

WordNet
feminize
  1. v. assume (more) feminine characteristics; "feminized language"; "feminized frogs" [syn: feminise]

  2. to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; "This hairdo feminizes the man" [syn: feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize]

Usage examples of "feminize".

Genet is a gay man and has no particular desire to dress as a woman offstage, nor has he had any surgical alterations, such as breast implants, to further feminize his appearance.

CDs choose, as is the practice of receiving nonmedically approved injections of automotive-grade silicone to feminize the bodily contours of the lips, cheeks, hips, and buttocks.

Plastic surgery to feminize the face, vocal cord surgery to raise the pitch of the voice, silicone implants into the cheeks, and the tattooing of eyeliner and lipliner onto the face are among the procedures transsexuals undergo that CDs almost never undertake.

While some transsexuals are born with feminine features, most need some cosmetic surgery to feminize the appearance.

Female hormones feminize the male body by softening the skin, reducing the growth of body hair, broadening the hips, and enlarging the breasts and nipples.

Would it frighten men, rendering their position less stable in their own eyes, or would it feminize them--that is, make them retiring, blushing, self-conscious beings?

CD possesses feminine tendencies due to an altered, or feminized, brain structure.

It might also be that if the CD does indeed have feminized brain structures--which I believe is the case--such structures are activated by the process of cross-dressing.

In the bright new feminized Hollywood, the female divas are Britney Spears, Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Elizabeth Hurley, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jenny McCarthy.

When the State takes care of all the children in government nurseries, and the mayor has taken her place in the United States Senate, her husband, if he has become sufficiently reformed and feminized, may go to the House, and the reunited family of two, clubbing their salaries, can live in great comfort.

If such feminizing activity occurred only in the brain, the effect would be manifested psychologically rather than physically.

By forcibly feminizing him, she hopes to show that she is more powerful than he, and that she can wreak havoc on his nascent masculinity anytime she pleases.

If women should succeed in reducing or raising--of course raising--men to the feminine standard, by feminizing society, literature, the colleges, and all that, would they not turn on their creations--for even the Bible intimates that women are uncertain and go in search of a Man?

There were male customers, married heterosexual men, who sometimes dreamed of making love to women who possessed penises, not male penises, but thin, tapering feminized stalks, like the stamens of flowers, clitorises that had elongated tremendously from abundant desire.

If women should succeed in reducing or raising--of course raising--men to the feminine standard, by feminizing society, literature, the colleges, and all that, would they not turn on their creations--for even the Bible intimates that women are uncertain and go in search of a Man?