Usually means: Make more feminine in characteristics.
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  1. effeminize: Merriam-Webster
  2. effeminize: Collins English Dictionary
  3. effeminize: Vocabulary.com
  4. effeminize: Wordnik
  5. effeminize: Wiktionary
  6. effeminize: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Effeminize, effeminize: Dictionary.com
  8. Effeminize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. effeminize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. effeminize: Rhymezone
  11. Effeminize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. effeminize: FreeDictionary.org
  13. effeminize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Effeminize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (effeminize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make effeminate.

Similar:
effeminatize, effeminise, effeminate, effœminate, woman, feminize, unfeminize, emolliate, defeminize, overfeminize, more...

Opposite:
masculinize, virilize, mup

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Similar:
effeminatize, effeminise, effeminate, effœminate, woman, feminize, unfeminize, emolliate, defeminize, overfeminize, more...

Opposite:
masculinize, virilize, mup



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