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Verb: desexualise  dee'sek-syű-u`lIz
Usage: Brit (=desexualize)
  1. Direct one's libidinous urges into another direction
    - desexualize
     
  2. Make infertile
    "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are desexualised"
    - sterilize, sterilise [Brit], desex, unsex, desexualize, fix

Derived forms: desexualises, desexualising, desexualised

Type of: operate, operate on, sublimate

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