feminize

Etymology

From Latin fēmina (“woman, female”) + -ize.

verb

  1. (transitive) To make (more) feminine.
    Parabiosis experiments on primitive vertebrates showed inversion of sex in either direction, males were feminized and females masculinized. 1962, Human Intersex, D J B Ashley
  2. (intransitive) To become (more) feminine.

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