verb
- making less feminine in appearance, behavior, or characteristics
Usage: present participle of defeminize
Examples
- The harsh military training was defeminizing the female recruits.
- Critics argued that the sport was defeminizing women athletes.
- The medication had the side effect of defeminizing her voice.
- Some worried that certain careers were defeminizing women.
- The uniform policy was accused of defeminizing female employees.
- Traditional gender roles prevented defeminizing influences in society.