Definition of defeminize in English:
defeminize
(British defeminise)
verb diːˈfɛmɪnʌɪzdēˈfeməˌnīz
[with object]Deprive of feminine characteristics.
an attempt to defeminize social policy
the argument that androgens defeminize or masculinize certain neural mechanisms
Example sentencesExamples
- Most notably, she is not defeminized by her intelligence.
- It was carried out with considerable brutality and impersonality, where the victims were publicly defeminised and destroyed.
- He had my head shaved and defeminised me.
- When she is defeminised, she has only the strength she gives herself.
- As I stand before the mirror looking at an image of a woman so defeminised by a black pinstripe suit, a familiar conversation came to mind.
- Finally, the narrator's descriptions of her ‘eye pits, [her] full set of teeth… [and] sour breath’ not only defeminize her but also dehumanize her.
- May is defeminized when she occupies those positions and/or performs functions already performed by men.
- However, the role of the heroine still differs from that of the hero; the role does not defeminize women but gives them depth as characters.
- Women's participation was initially resisted on the grounds that women would be ‘harmed by competition or defeminised by training’.
- Margery seems defeminised, too: her experience of womanhood feels very much an outsider's view.
- The poor working-class criminal takes on an exaggerated animal status as brute while the female offender is defeminised as ‘mad’.
- Note the language she uses - for example she talks about defeminising herself.
- Hormones that leak into streams from cattle feedlots are altering the sexual characteristics of wild fish, demasculinising the males and defeminising the females, according to a study.