Usually means: Remove or reduce feminine characteristics.
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  1. defeminize: Merriam-Webster
  2. defeminize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defeminize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defeminize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defeminize: Vocabulary.com
  6. defeminize: Wordnik
  7. defeminize: Wiktionary
  8. defeminize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. defeminize: Dictionary.com
  10. defeminize: Rhymezone
  11. defeminize: FreeDictionary.org
  12. defeminize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. defeminize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. defeminize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. defeminize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. defeminize: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defeminize)

▸ verb:  To lose, or to remove, feminine characteristics or qualities

Similar:
defeminise, demasculinize, feminize, unfeminize, effeminize, effeminate, femalize, demasculate, degenderize, effeminise, more...

Opposite:
feminize, empower, strengthen, uplift

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Similar:
defeminise, demasculinize, feminize, unfeminize, effeminize, effeminate, femalize, demasculate, degenderize, effeminise, more...

Opposite:
feminize, empower, strengthen, uplift



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