feminize
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become feminine.
feminized
Example Sentences
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Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana feminized the menswear silhouettes this season, with tailoring tricks long deployed for women.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
The response essay, written by Dorothy R. Santos, an expert on voice recognition, explores the cultural baggage behind our obsession with feminized A.I.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2022
Even that chosen moniker, Roberta Breitmore, sheds “more light” on “Roberta,” a feminized male name, upending assumptions around confident self-portraiture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
As with the film’s treatment of Ball, the implication is that she is too good for the feminized media forms she helped create.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2021
It was a tiny girl child, black of hue as both her doting parents, and endowed with the name of her sire, somewhat feminized for her fitting into the rather euphonious Pompeylou.
From Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Ruth McEnery Stuart
