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Unsexes vs Unsees - What's the difference?

unsexes | unsees |

As verbs the difference between unsexes and unsees

is that unsexes is third-person singular of unsex while unsees is third-person singular of unsee.

unsexes

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Verb

(head)
  • (unsex)
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    unsex

    English

    Verb

  • To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics.
  • * 1603-06 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, Scene V:
  • Lady Macbeth: "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe full / Of direst cruelty:"
  • To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.
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    unsees

    English

    Verb

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  • (unsee)
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    unsee

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    Verb

  • To undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.
  • * 1829 , Robert Taylor, "Infidel Mission.—Fifteenth Bulletin", in The Lion , volume IV, number 10, page 304:
  • We have shown the world, and it cannot be unseen , it cannot be unknown, it cannot be forgotten, that Christianity cannot be defended on any ground where Infidelity can get an inch of fair play against it.
  • * 1897 March 20, (George Bernard Shaw), "Shakespeare in Manchester", printed in 1906, Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw ,(SIC) Volume 2, Brentano's (1922), page 215:
  • I have only seen the performance once; and I would not unsee it again if I could; but none the less I am a broken man after it.
  • * 1969 , Joseph McElroy, Hind's Kidnap , page 180:
  • once you’ve seen this you bear always the burden of its sight. And, as Laura says, you can’t unsee it.
  • * 1977 , (Stephen King), :
  • Once you saw the face of a god in those jumbled blacks and whites, it was everybody out of the pool—you could never unsee it.
  • * 1991 , E. Roy Weintraub, Stabilizing Dynamics , page 94:
  • Once one has “seen” the well-known gestalt psychology drawing of the young woman in a fur coat, she cannot be “unseen ” after one notices the alternative, an old crone