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Meaning of "defeminise" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEFEMINISE

defeminise  [diːˈfɛmɪˌnaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEFEMINISE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Defeminise is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb defeminise in English.

WHAT DOES DEFEMINISE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of defeminise in the English dictionary

The definition of defeminise in the dictionary is to divest of feminine qualities. Other definition of defeminise is to surgically take away the ovaries of.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DEFEMINISE

PRESENT

Present
I defeminise
you defeminise
he/she/it defeminises
we defeminise
you defeminise
they defeminise
Present continuous
I am defeminising
you are defeminising
he/she/it is defeminising
we are defeminising
you are defeminising
they are defeminising
Present perfect
I have defeminised
you have defeminised
he/she/it has defeminised
we have defeminised
you have defeminised
they have defeminised
Present perfect continuous
I have been defeminising
you have been defeminising
he/she/it has been defeminising
we have been defeminising
you have been defeminising
they have been defeminising
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I defeminised
you defeminised
he/she/it defeminised
we defeminised
you defeminised
they defeminised
Past continuous
I was defeminising
you were defeminising
he/she/it was defeminising
we were defeminising
you were defeminising
they were defeminising
Past perfect
I had defeminised
you had defeminised
he/she/it had defeminised
we had defeminised
you had defeminised
they had defeminised
Past perfect continuous
I had been defeminising
you had been defeminising
he/she/it had been defeminising
we had been defeminising
you had been defeminising
they had been defeminising
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will defeminise
you will defeminise
he/she/it will defeminise
we will defeminise
you will defeminise
they will defeminise
Future continuous
I will be defeminising
you will be defeminising
he/she/it will be defeminising
we will be defeminising
you will be defeminising
they will be defeminising
Future perfect
I will have defeminised
you will have defeminised
he/she/it will have defeminised
we will have defeminised
you will have defeminised
they will have defeminised
Future perfect continuous
I will have been defeminising
you will have been defeminising
he/she/it will have been defeminising
we will have been defeminising
you will have been defeminising
they will have been defeminising
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would defeminise
you would defeminise
he/she/it would defeminise
we would defeminise
you would defeminise
they would defeminise
Conditional continuous
I would be defeminising
you would be defeminising
he/she/it would be defeminising
we would be defeminising
you would be defeminising
they would be defeminising
Conditional perfect
I would have defeminise
you would have defeminise
he/she/it would have defeminise
we would have defeminise
you would have defeminise
they would have defeminise
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been defeminising
you would have been defeminising
he/she/it would have been defeminising
we would have been defeminising
you would have been defeminising
they would have been defeminising
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you defeminise
we let´s defeminise
you defeminise
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to defeminise
Past participle
defeminised
Present Participle
defeminising
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEFEMINISE


albumenise
ælˈbjuːmɪˌnaɪz
albumenize
ælˈbjuːmɪˌnaɪz
albuminise
ˈælbjʊmɪˌnaɪz
albuminize
ˈælbjʊmɪˌnaɪz
aluminise
əˈluːmɪˌnaɪz
aluminize
əˈluːmɪˌnaɪz
bituminise
bɪˈtjuːmɪˌnaɪz
bituminize
bɪˈtjuːmɪˌnaɪz
deaminise
diːˈæmɪˌnaɪz
deaminize
diːˈæmɪˌnaɪz
defeminize
diːˈfemɪˌnaɪz
effeminize
ɪˈfɛmɪˌnaɪz
feminise
ˈfɛmɪˌnaɪz
feminize
ˈfɛmɪˌnaɪz
hominize
ˈhɒmɪˌnaɪz
phenomenise
fɪˈnɒmɪˌnaɪz
phenomenize
fɪˈnɒmɪˌnaɪz
scrutinize
ˈskruːtɪˌnaɪz
vitaminise
ˈvɪtəmɪˌnaɪz
vitaminize
ˈvɪtəmɪˌnaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEFEMINISE

defect
defectibility
defectible
defection
defectionist
defective
defectively
defectiveness
defector
defeminisation
defeminization
defeminize
defence
defence counsel
defence expenditure
defence forces
defence in depth
defence mechanism
defence secretary
defenceless

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEFEMINISE

alkalinise
attitudinise
chlorinise
cocainise
cretinise
cutinise
defibrinise
desalinise
divinise
gelatinise
keratinise
Latinise
masculinise
organise
platinise
platitudinise
porcelainise
scrutinise
serpentinise
trichinise

Synonyms and antonyms of defeminise in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «defeminise» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEFEMINISE

Find out the translation of defeminise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of defeminise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «defeminise» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

defeminise
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

defeminise
570 millions of speakers

English

defeminise
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

defeminise
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

defeminise
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

defeminise
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

defeminise
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

defeminise
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

defeminise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Defeminise
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

defeminise
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

defeminise
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

defeminise
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Defeminise
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

defeminise
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

defeminise
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विटंबना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

defeminise
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

defeminise
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

defeminise
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

defeminise
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

defeminise
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

defeminise
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

defeminise
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

defeminise
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

defeminise
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of defeminise

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEFEMINISE»

The term «defeminise» is used very little and occupies the 179.484 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEFEMINISE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «defeminise» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «defeminise» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about defeminise

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEFEMINISE»

Discover the use of defeminise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to defeminise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic
... Mercury) by inseminating Medea with transgressive love which will overcome her pudor and defeminise her (just as the beautiful boys too cross the gender boundaries, and are feminised in death)"6 While Virgil and others have applied the ...
Helen Lovatt, 2013
2
Contexts of Nursing
Itshould benoted, however, thattherewasa concerted effortin the United Kingdom to 'defeminise' management within nursing, enabling mentobe more easily promoted into thesepositions (Carpenter 1977). McDonald (2012:2)does pointout that ...
John Daly, Sandra Speedy, Debra Jackson, 2014
3
Women Artists and the Parisian Avant-garde: Modernism and ...
One response to this debate was to defeminise practices by women which were seen to compete with those of established (and highly valued) male painters. The expression 'to paint like a man' could thus carry with it a currency of meanings ...
Gillian Perry, 1995
4
Whose Islam? Pakistani Women's Political Action Groups Speak Out
Maududi may have had Jinnah in mind when he wrote, "the people who want women to undertake manly duties [any public role] perhaps want to 'defeminise' them all and finish off the human race" (Maududi 1986a:119). A.3. Institutional ...
Kathleen Fenner Laird, 2007
5
Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism
... (Koerner, 1996) – formed part of a campaign to defeminise science by establishing a 'masculine “culture of experts”' (Shteir, 1996:159).29This is notto saythatwomen passively accepted these developments any more than, inthe laterperiod, ...
Tony Bennett, 2004
6
Theatre Audiences
If this is indeed the case, it certainly speaks to the hegemony of the masculine in culture that dominant cinema offers an address that, as a condition of being meaningful, must in effect defeminise the female spectator. (Kuhn 1982: 64) B. Ruby ...
Susan Bennett, 2013
7
Negotiating Boundaries: Gender, Violence and Transformation ...
The desire to publicly humiliate and defeminise women, as echoed in conflict areas around the world (Stiles 2007; Monaghan 2002:46), suggests that women's behaviour is viewed as qualitatively different from men's rule breaking. Norms ...
Polly Wilding, 2012
8
The Monthly Review
To suppose our Islanders will not do it, is supposing them to have very little curiosity indeed ; and a flat uncharacteristicaiy«/>/>e/£, as Bays calls it. After this they are to emasculate or defeminise themselves, jf we may be indulged that term for ...
Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, 1760
9
A Serious Endeavour: Gender, Education and Community at St ...
... educating women would defeminise them, bringing them into dangerousproximity with menandmaking themunsuitedto family life. 2 Collegesthus reproduced the rituals ofthe middle-class home: Annie Moberly, for example, insisted that her ...
Laura Schwartz, 2011
10
Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction: ...
So, interestingly enough, didthemale writers ofthe1890s, whowrote adventure fiction and'new realism' (a sort of imitation naturalism)in orderto 'defeminise theliterary marketplace'.74 The ostensibleenemy of serious literaryfiction inboth ...
Melissa Schaub, 2013

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEFEMINISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term defeminise is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Building a future for North East women in the construction industry
It won't defeminise them in any way. “There are opportunities for women to be part of doing something amazing in the construction industry and ... «ChronicleLive, Jun 15»
2
Fashion notes: Power dressing without going back in time
By latching onto a masculine aesthetic that would intentionally defeminise the female form completely, our sharp-shouldered dark suits with ... «The National, Sep 14»
3
Lead Like A Woman
The received wisdom for years has been: cut your hair short, power dress – in short defeminise yourself. Three panellists then shared their ... «IEDP, May 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Defeminise [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/defeminise>. Apr 2024 ».
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