Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To take away the sexual quality of.
  • transitive verb To desex.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deprive of sex or sexual characters; castrate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb to direct one's libidinous urges into another direction.
  • verb same as desex.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To divest of sexual attributes; to make conceptually asexual.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make infertile
  • verb direct one's libidinous urges into another direction

Etymologies

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de- +‎ sexualize

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