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unsex

/uhn-seks/US // ʌnˈsɛks //UK // (ʌnˈsɛks) //

无性,无性行为,无性生活,无性的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deprive of sexual power; render impotent or frigid; spay or castrate.
    • : to deprive of the proper or appropriate character and qualities of one's sex, as by unnatural conduct.

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Examples

  • It is a mistaken idea to suppose that to become an accomplished horse-woman a lady must unsex herself.

  • Can a ballot in the hand of woman and dignity on her brow, more unsex her than do a scepter and a crown?

  • Their unnatural attempt to be wiser than God, and to unsex themselves, had done little but disease their mind and heart.

  • Many Socialists, in giving to woman equality with man as a wage-earner and voter, wish to unsex her completely.

  • Clergymen lay aside their Bibles, and females unsex themselves, to carry on this horrid warfare against slave holders.