defeminize
Americanverb (used with object)
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“I realized I wasn’t going to survive, so I made it my full-time job to defeminize myself as a form of self-protection.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The absence of Barr bodies in some of the cancer cells suggested that those cells had been, in effect, partly defeminized.
From Time Magazine Archive
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