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effeminise

effeminise is the alternative form of effeminize.

Meaning of effeminize

Verb

effeminize (third-person singular simple present effeminizes, present participle effeminizing, simple past and past participle effeminized)

  1. (transitive) To make effeminate.

Forms of effeminise

third-person singular presenteffeminises
present participleeffeminising
past participleeffeminised
pasteffeminised

Questions about effeminise

What is effeminise the alternative form of?
Effeminise is the alternative form of effeminize.

Words near effeminise in the dictionary

  1. effeminations
  2. effeminatize
  3. effeminatized
  4. effeminatizes
  5. effeminatizing
  6. effeminise
  7. effeminised
  8. effeminises
  9. effeminising
  10. effeminism
  11. effeminist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: effeminise (page history and authors); effeminize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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