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v. - Make infertile; Remove the qualities typical of one's gender.

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Usage examples (31)
  • Lady Macbeth, calling on spirits to unsex her, is lunged at by staff-bearers.
  • George Eliot, as a true artist, sees what is faulty in the catastrophe, but she will not unsex her creation.
  • Clergymen lay aside their Bibles, and females unsex themselves, to carry on this horrid warfare against slave holders.
  • Gentlemen, we ask nothing that would unsex ourselves.
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