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In sport and war, the big fear of men is to be feminized.

"It seems that you are feminized, but still have the same body."

Two million women took office jobs during the war which offered job security because they had become "feminized".

The argument also raises the question whether anything could have feminized the force more than women.

She found no evidence of anyone trying to feminize Clay's surroundings.

Another widespread objection is that it would feminize a male club.

The biggest danger with men, aesthetically, is doing too much and feminizing them.

Carole was pregnant and, with no further use for Vince, decided to feminize him.

Even though he had been feminized like the others, Dave didn't try to look or act feminine in any way.

But feminizing technology is more about a product's fundamentals, often expressed in its ease of use.

An excess of oestrogen will increase these feminizing traits in men.

He knows you conquer enemies by feminizing the men and putting down the women."

The war also became increasingly "feminized" in the popular literature of both regions, albeit with significant differences.

But there are other hormonal changes involved in creating a queen aside from simply feminizing her.

Italian opera, too, is criticized for its attributed tendency to feminize men.

Through this work she attempted to "feminize" and "soften" the landscape.

The area was feminized as an open, virgin territory, with no ability or concept of organized rule and government.

You might say that she has feminized Dadaism and brought it into the video-fixated present.

In her six inch heels, she towered over the rapidly feminizing male.

Later at puberty, estrogen feminizes a young woman, giving her adult sexual characteristics.

Lots of leather jeans can be seen on the streets these days, but what's different about this clothing is that it has been feminized.

Mario was able to personalize and even feminize the idiom of the movement.

Feminizing the traditional garb has its share of pitfalls.

Girls are feminized from childhood by being taught rules that subjugate them, she argued.

The genome contains an incorporated bacterium that feminizes any males.

Cheery Littlebottom's attempts to feminise this tradition have not been met with great success, at least by human standards.

Standard rhinoplasty procedures are generally used to successfully feminise a masculine nose.

To feminise a mouth an incision is usually made just under the base of the nose and a section of skin is removed.

Bather attempted to "feminise" the force, redesigning the uniform in 1946 and allowing policewomen to wear makeup on duty.

Male prisoners of war may be subject to rape and sexual violence, which some commentators have interpreted as a way for captors to feminise the captive.

By destroying these particular instincts, that is to say by attempting to masculinise woman, and to feminise men, we jeopardise the future of our people.