desexes

verb

present tense third-person singular of desex
as in alters
to remove the sex organs of desex the baby chickens destined for market

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  1. alters
  2. fixes
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  • In that scene, Rhys Harries impressively alters his own features without makeup.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Researchers have confirmed that the ultrashort laser pulse alters the magnetic order of an iron layer.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of alters
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  • If a customer fixes an address but later messages or decisions still use the old one, the correction may not have reached every system.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The gas used in the Holocaust used the same industrial chemistry that fixes nitrogen for the fertilizer that feeds most of the world.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of fixes
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