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de·sex
di seks
desexes, desexing, desexed
verb
transitive verb
castrate, spay
to eliminate perceived sexism from
desex the language of church Bible study programs—R. M. Harley
desexualize sense 2
1911年,意为“阉割”; 1962年,意为“去除明显的性特征,减少性吸引力”; 参见 de- + sex。相关词汇: Desexed; desexing。
The first known use of desex was in 1911
despiseverb
to consider as beneath one's notice or respect : feel scorn and dislike for
despicableadjective
deserving to be despised
a despicable traitor
desexverb
castrate, spay
capons are desexed male chickens
desextransitive verb
castrate sense 1, spay
1 Are parents just tame animals, housebroken and desexed?
2 Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
3 Instead, she says, she seeks unconventionality on the big screen, something surprising among the glut of “desexed, matronly” roles she is offered.
4 It called for desexing the English language, replacing “policeman” with “police officer” and “stewardess” with “flight attendant.”
5 Moreover, large numbers of individual dogs will be unable to reproduce because they have been desexed, and so even if individuals manage to survive, they will be at a genetic dead end.
6 Their latest study, which is not yet published, examined 35 breeds and mutts and detected no associations between desexing and cancers or joint disorders in small dogs.
7 In the novel, Ruth desexes herself, as surely as Lady Macbeth, going from woman to self-described she-devil.
8 Beneath the dignity of his tombstone, desexed, sanitized and dead, John could be a father my kids could really respect.
9 He rejected Bardot’s argument that the feral cats could be desexed.
10 Concrete, as W. H. Auden so acutely observed, desexes the space it occupies.
11 desex the baby chickens destined for market
12 Why do we need to desex your cats at home or on the streets?
为甚麽我们要为家中及街上的猫儿绝育?