Definition of "defeminize" []

• To divest of feminine traits, qualities, or characteristics. (verb-transitive)

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• "You are correct in pointing out that in the frat-tastic jockocracy that is today's GOP, it is standard operating procedure to feminize male candidates and defeminize female candidates."
• "Professional careers do not of themselves defeminize women, otherwise the Church would not have raised political women to sainthood, as was the case with St. Elizabeth and St. Clotilde."
• "No, I was just trying to speak what I thought might be in Rosie ` s mind, not what ` s in my mind, but, you know, to draw a mustache on a woman is to defeminize her."