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feminize (v.)
1650s, "make feminine or womanish," from Latin
femina
"woman, a female" (see
feminine
) +
-ize
. Related:
Feminized
;
feminizing
.
Femalize
(1670s, intransitive, 1709, transitive) and
femininize
(1868) are more rare.