Definition of "unsex" []

• To deprive of sexual capacity or sexual attributes. (verb-transitive)
• To castrate. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection."
• "Under the universal assumption that men alone were humanity, that the world was masculine and for men only, the efforts of the women were met as a deliberate attempt to "unsex" themselves and become men."
• "Particularly gruesome were the umbilical cord ripped from Lady Macbeth's body ( "unsex me here ...") and the silken web strands that emerged from her fingertips."