DESEXED Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in altered

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verb

past tense of desex

as in fixed

to remove the sex organs of desex the baby chickens destined for market

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Adjective

Search engines, screen readers, copy/paste tools, and translation software can all get tripped up by the altered HTML, making the page a little less useful to your intended audience.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
The altered protein must produce a fragment that can be displayed, and that fragment must be presented by a surface display protein type found in the patient.

— William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of altered

Verb

The science is catching up to what consumers have been smelling for decades and that science shows aroma is engineerable rather than fixed, with entire families of previously unidentified compounds still being mapped.

— Peter Su, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
And those rates are fixed, allowing savers to earn a predictable return in an otherwise unpredictable economy.

— Matt Richardson, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of fixed

Adjective

To combat the spread, the USDA jointly funds and manages a sterile fly production facility with Panama that releases about 100 million sterile flies each week.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
Ted Lasso, forever more interested in preserving an atmosphere of sterile niceness than grappling with complex humanity, isn’t it.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of sterile

Adjective

This might ensure that the female’s own genes get passed on, just in case her nesting partner is infertile.

— Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 8 July 2026
The fact that [Ruben] is infertile and what that means to his manhood, and his ability to be masculine and reproduce and have a son.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026

Definition of infertile

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