desexualise

• 动词，指去除或减少某人或某物身上的性特征、性含义或性联想，使其不再具有性色彩。

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.

   转移性欲能量

   • 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.

   同义词channeldivertredirectsublimate

   反义词eroticizesexualize

2. Make infertileC1formalmedical

   To render an organism unable to reproduce; to sterilize.

   绝育

   • 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.

   同义词castratedesexfixgeldneuterspaysterilize

   反义词fecundatefertiliseimpregnate