desexualize
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
direct one's libidinous urges into another direction
Types & categories
- sublimate hypernym
Sense 2 verb
make infertile
in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
Types & categories
- operate on hypernym
- neuter hyponym
- demasculinize hyponym
- vasectomize hyponym
Related & opposite
- sterilization derivation
- neutering derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sublimate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sterilization |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | neutering |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | operate on |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | neuter |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | demasculinize |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | vasectomize |