transsexualize
transsexualize verb: to make transsexual.
Verb
transsexualize (third-person singular simple present transsexualizes, present participle transsexualizing, simple past and past participle transsexualized)
- To make transsexual.
- […] which he liked to compare to an archduchess's urine, fetishizing it as a kind of elixir of femaleness by which he can transsexualize himself […]1996, Christine Froula, Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce, →ISBN, page 217
- To cause (something such as an anthropomorphized natural phenomenon, like a flood) to have the opposite sex or gender.
- these embodied female waters are actually present in full flood despite [...] the embrace of the English translation of "Father of Waters" [...]. This is to say that waters that are turbulent and torrential are not always transsexualized as males via the rhetorical strategies of birth (The...2009, Cecelia Tichi, Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places, →ISBN, page 204
Forms of transsexualize
| third-person singular present | transsexualizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | transsexualizing |
| past participle | transsexualized |
| past | transsexualized |
Origin of transsexualize
From transsexual + -ize.
Questions about transsexualize
- What does transsexualize mean?
- Transsexualize means to make transsexual.
- What part of speech is transsexualize?
- Transsexualize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of transsexualize?
- The past tense of transsexualize is transsexualized.
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