Parabiosis experiments on primitive vertebrates showed inversion of sex in either direction, males were feminized and females masculinized.
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Feminize
//ˈfɛmɪnaɪz//
Synonyms for "feminize" (11 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Verb(2 words)
Strong matches (3)
Verb(3 words)
Related words (5)
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4 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 16 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَنَّثَ verb (to make (more) feminine)
Bulgarian
2 entries- феминизирам verb (to make (more) feminine)
- феминизирам се verb (to become (more) feminine)
Catalan
2 entries- feminitzar verb (to make (more) feminine)
- feminitzar-se verb (to become (more) feminine)
Finnish
3 entries- naisellistaa verb (to make (more) feminine)
- naisellistua verb (to become (more) feminine)
- naisistua verb (to become (more) feminine)
French
1 entries- féminiser verb (to make (more) feminine)
Galician
2 entries- feminizar verb (to make (more) feminine)
- feminizarse verb (to become (more) feminine)
German
4 entries- feminisieren verb (to make (more) feminine)
- feminisieren verb (to become (more) feminine)
- verweiblichen verb (to make (more) feminine)
- verweiblichen verb (to become (more) feminine)
Greek
2 entries- εκθηλύνομαι verb (to become (more) feminine)
- εκθηλύνω verb (to make (more) feminine)
Hungarian
1 entries- nőiessé tesz verb (to make (more) feminine)
Italian
1 entries- femminilizzare verb (to make (more) feminine)
Korean
2 entries- 여성화(女性化)되다 verb (to become (more) feminine)
- 여성화(女性化)하다 verb (to make (more) feminine)
Latin
4 entries- effēminō verb (to make (more) feminine)
- effēminō verb (to become (more) feminine)
- molliō verb (to make (more) feminine)
- ēnervō verb (to make (more) feminine)
Polish
4 entries- feminizować verb (to make (more) feminine)
- sfeminizować verb (to make (more) feminine)
- sfeminizować się verb (to become (more) feminine)
- ukobiecać verb (to make (more) feminine)
Portuguese
2 entries- feminizar verb (to make (more) feminine)
- feminizarse verb (to become (more) feminine)
Spanish
2 entries- feminizar verb (to make (more) feminine)
- feminizarse verb (to become (more) feminine)
Swedish
2 entries- feminisera verb (to make (more) feminine)
- feminiseras verb (to become (more) feminine)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.
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For a start, it feminizes Tarquin by drawing on the conventional gendering of the human soul as female (Donne's 'Batter my heart . . .' offers an obvious but interesting comparison), and implies that his physical assault on Lucrece has both offended against his own body and contaminated, almost violated, his spiritual and 'female' self. Rape has almost been self-rape.
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Surgical interventions for gender dysphoria, according to WPATH, can include feminizing or masculinizing hormone therapy, voice therapy, chest augmentation and reduction, or genital surgery.
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