effeminize

POS

Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

ef=fem=i=nize

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb effeminize has 1 sense

effeminize(v = verb.change) effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize - to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; "This hairdo feminizes the man"

is one way to alter, change, modify

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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CIDE DICTIONARY

effeminize, v. t.

To make effeminate. [1913 Webster]

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THESAURUS

effeminize

castrate, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, devitalize, effeminate, effeminatize, emasculate, enervate, etiolate, exhaust, geld, sissify, soften, sterilize, unman, unnerve, womanize

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