desexualise

• Verbe signifiant retirer ou réduire les caractéristiques, connotations ou associations sexuelles de quelque chose ou de quelqu'un.

A verb meaning to remove or reduce sexual characteristics, connotations, or associations from something or someone.

1. Redirect sexual energyC1formalscientific

   To channel one's sexual or libidinal impulses into a different, often non-sexual, activity or direction.

   Sublimer

   • The therapist suggested he desexualise his energy by focusing on creative hobbies.
   • Some artists desexualise their passions into their work.
   • He learned to desexualise his thoughts through meditation and discipline.

   Synonymeschanneldivertredirectsublimate

   Antonymeseroticizesexualize

2. Make infertileC1formalmedical

   To render an organism unable to reproduce; to sterilize.

   stériliser (un organisme)

   • The veterinarian desexualised the stray cat to control the population.
   • Many pet owners choose to desexualise their animals for health reasons.
   • The procedure to desexualise the animal was quick and safe.

   Synonymescastratedesexfixgeldneuterspaysterilize

   Antonymesfecundatefertiliseimpregnate