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Verb: desexualise  dee'sek-syû-u,lIz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: desexualize)
  1. Direct one's libidinous urges into another direction
    "She desexualised her feelings by focusing on her career";
    - desexualize
     
  2. Make infertile
    "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are desexualised";
    - sterilize, sterilise [Brit], desex, unsex, desexualize, fix

Derived forms: desexualised, desexualises, desexualising

Type of: operate, operate on, sublimate