defeminise

Questions about defeminise

What does defeminise mean?

defeminise means "remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)".

How many syllables are in defeminise?

defeminise has 4 syllables and divides as de-fe-mi-nise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for defeminise?

Close synonyms include defeminize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defeminise a common word?

defeminise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.