Definitions for unsex

unsex un·sex

Spelling: [uhn-seks]
IPA: /ʌnˈsɛks/

Unsex is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in unsex (ensux).

Definitions for unsex

verb (used with object)

  1. to deprive of sexual power; render impotent or frigid; spay or castrate.
  2. to deprive (oneself or another) of the proper or appropriate character and qualities of one's sex, as by unnatural conduct.

Origin of unsex

First recorded in 1595-1605; un-2 + sex

Examples for unsex

The attitude of men toward those women who have so far presumed to "unsex themselves" is known to all.

It is a mistaken idea to suppose that to become an accomplished horse-woman a lady must unsex herself.

George Eliot, as a true artist, sees what is faulty in the catastrophe, but she will not unsex her creation.

There be many ways a woman can "unsex" herself, beside lecturing in public.

When a woman does unsex herself, she can give a man points in wickedness that he never dreamed of.

Their unnatural attempt to be wiser than God, and to unsex themselves, had done little but disease their mind and heart.

Many Socialists, in giving to woman equality with man as a wage-earner and voter, wish to unsex her completely.

Education, beyond the simple old-fashioned limits, tended only to unsex her.

She cannot unsex herself or rid herself of the feeling that admiration is accorded to her as a pretty woman.

Now the effect of the parasite seems to be to unsex as it were its victims so far as their outward appearance is concerned.

Word Value for unsex
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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