dismanv.
/dɪsˈman/ΘΚΠ
the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [verb (transitive)]
effeminate1531
womanish1561
feminine1583
womanizea1586
hermaphroditize1598
unman1599
woman1611
smock1614
effeminizec1616
evirate1627
disman1628
lady1656
emolliate1802
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlvii. sig. Q5v Man by death is absolutely diuided and disman'd.
1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 98 There is no spectacle..more terrible, then to behold a dying man to stand by, and see a man dismanned.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 10 All is faint in that man that hath once dismanned himself.
2. To deprive (a country, etc.) of men.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) > deprive of people
disman1863
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 293 This is why I have chosen to say that France was dismanned.
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