desexing

verb

present participle of desex
as in altering
to remove the sex organs of desex the baby chickens destined for market

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desexing
  1. altering
  2. fixing
  3. neutering
Verb
  • James was the last serious, season-altering piece left on the board.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
  • Percy Jackson is departing on yet another world-altering adventure this fall.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 23 July 2026
Definition of altering
Verb
  • During a speech to soldiers in 2025, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, an Iraq War veteran and former cavalry officer, acknowledged that fixing basic rank-and-file issues, including access to quality food, is an urgent issue for the service.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • Documents that once reflected reality slowly stop doing so, and fixing them later almost always requires more time, more complexity and more expense than updating them along the way.
    — Anatoly Iofe, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of fixing
Verb
  • And rather than trying to be, in my view, kind of smart about how to build up a Lebanese government for the purpose of disarming and neutering Hezbollah, which is definitely in Israel’s interest, Israel has been engaged in this bombardment of Lebanon.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
  • That cost includes electricity costs, vaccines/spay and neutering, and staffing, Webber said.
    — Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
Definition of neutering
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“Desexing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desexing. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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