feminize
verb/ˈfɛmɪnaɪz/CA/ˈfemɪnɑez/
Etymology
From Latin fēmina (“woman, female”) + -ize.
Definitions
To make (more) feminine.
- Parabiosis experiments on primitive vertebrates showed inversion of sex in either direction, males were feminized and females masculinized.
- The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.
To become (more) feminine.
The neighborhood
- synonymfemalize
- antonymmasculinize
- antonymmasculinise
- antonymmasculize
- antonymmasculise
Derived
defeminize, feminizable, feminization, feminizer, overfeminize, refeminize, unfeminize
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA