Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to feminize
Participle: feminized
Gerund: feminizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | feminize |
| you | feminize |
| he;she;it | feminizes |
| we | feminize |
| you | feminize |
| they | feminize |
Perfect
| I | have feminized |
| you | have feminized |
| he;she;it | has feminized |
| we | have feminized |
| you | have feminized |
| they | have feminized |
Past
| I | feminized |
| you | feminized |
| he;she;it | feminized |
| we | feminized |
| you | feminized |
| they | feminized |
Pluperfect
| I | had feminized |
| you | had feminized |
| he;she;it | had feminized |
| we | had feminized |
| you | had feminized |
| they | had feminized |
Future
| I | will feminize |
| you | will feminize |
| he;she;it | will feminize |
| we | will feminize |
| you | will feminize |
| they | will feminize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have feminized |
| you | will have feminized |
| he;she;it | will have feminized |
| we | will have feminized |
| you | will have feminized |
| they | will have feminized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | feminize |
| you | feminize |
| he;she;it | feminize |
| we | feminize |
| you | feminize |
| they | feminize |
Perfect
| I | have feminized |
| you | have feminized |
| he;she;it | have feminized |
| we | have feminized |
| you | have feminized |
| they | have feminized |
Imperfect
| I | feminized |
| you | feminized |
| he;she;it | feminized |
| we | feminized |
| you | feminized |
| they | feminized |
Pluperfect
| I | had feminized |
| you | had feminized |
| he;she;it | had feminized |
| we | had feminized |
| you | had feminized |
| they | had feminized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would feminize |
| you | would feminize |
| he;she;it | would feminize |
| we | would feminize |
| you | would feminize |
| they | would feminize |
Perfect
| I | would have feminized |
| you | would have feminized |
| he;she;it | would have feminized |
| we | would have feminized |
| you | would have feminized |
| they | would have feminized |
Imperative
| you | feminize |
| we | Let's feminize |
| you | feminize |
Verbs conjugated like 'feminize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'feminize'
feminise,
deaminize,
defeminize,
demonize,
effeminize,
felonize,
femalize,
femininize,
fermionize,
hominize,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂
4. Proto-Italic *θēmanā
5. Proto-Italic *fēmanā
6. Latin fēmina
7. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
9. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
10. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
11. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
12. Late Latin -izōder.
13. Middle French -iserbor.
14. Middle English -isen
15. English -ize
16. English feminize
17. From Latin fēmina (“woman, female”) + English -ize.
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen. [2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, page 202:]
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For a start, it feminizes Tarquin by drawing on the conventional gendering of the human soul as female (Donne's 'Batter my heart . . .' offers an obvious but interesting comparison), and implies that his physical assault on Lucrece has both offended against his own body and contaminated, almost violated, his spiritual and 'female' self. Rape has almost been self-rape. [2014, A. D. Cousins, Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems, →ISBN, page 84:]
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Surgical interventions for gender dysphoria, according to WPATH, can include feminizing or masculinizing hormone therapy, voice therapy, chest augmentation and reduction, or genital surgery. [2018 May 31, Emanuella Grinberg, “What is medically necessary treatment for gender-affirming health care?”, in CNN:]