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UK
/fˈɛmɪnˌaɪz/
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VERB
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to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to
This hairdo feminizes the man -
assume (more) feminine characteristics
feminized frogs
feminized language
How To Use feminise In A Sentence
- Will his sex-change also feminize his personality, his attitudes, his spirit, and thus endanger my male friendship with him?
- Such a figure is literally and etymologically hysterical, as it is excessively feminized; it is also psychoanalytically hysterical.
- I posted a couple of days ago that Amy thought my room was too masculine, and had attempted to feminise it by pinning a coloured bag to my pinboard.
- He argues that professionalization emerged as an ideology used by women and men social workers to overcome their marginal status and gain respectability in a new and increasingly feminized job market in the 20th century.
- In general, ovarian estrogens feminize and demasculinize the developing hypothalamus and perhaps other brain areas known to control copulatory behaviors.
- Once, however, Maria has entered the von Trapp household, she actively humanises, harmonises, and feminises these new environs.
- Over time, this element of her story is lost, and she is increasingly configured as a highly feminized martyr.
- For this group of men who won't feminise their behaviour, Britain is becoming increasingly unwelcoming.
- This hairdo feminizes the man
- Where women need none, men need two kinds of hormones: androgens from the testes to prompt the Wolffian duct into development, and a second substance, called Mullerian inhibiting hormone, to suppress the Mullerian duct and defeminize the male fetus. Homosexuality and Biology