desexualize, desexualise - direct one's libidinous urges into another direction --1is one way tosublimate Sample sentence: Somebody ----s something
sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized" --2is one way tooperate on, operate Sample sentence: Somebody ----s somebody