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feminise

feminise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of feminize.

Meaning of feminize

Verb

feminize (third-person singular simple present feminizes, present participle feminizing, simple past and past participle feminized)

  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.

Forms of feminise

third-person singular presentfeminises
present participlefeminising
past participlefeminised
pastfeminised

Words formed from feminise

Questions about feminise

What is feminise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Feminise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of feminize.

Words near feminise in the dictionary

  1. femininized
  2. femininizes
  3. femininizing
  4. feminisation
  5. feminisations
  6. feminise
  7. feminised
  8. feminiser
  9. feminisers
  10. feminises
  11. feminising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: feminise (page history and authors); feminize (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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