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sex
2
verb
sex
2
[
transitive
]
technical
HBA
to find out whether an animal is male or female
sex something ↔
up
phrasal verb
if someone sexes up a report or document, they make changes to it in order to make it say what they want it to say, even though it might not be completely true
:
The Prime Minister denied that he had asked anyone to sex up the report.
Definition of sex from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English within
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animal
asp
ass
baby
bat
bay
(n)
bay
(v)
bay
(a)
bear
boa
brush
buffalo
bull
call
cat
cayman
chicken
chow
coat
cow
cry
den
dog
feed
female
(a)
female
(n)
fin
fox
gnu
hack
hart
horse
hybrid
jaguar
Jersey
kid
lion
male
mare
mate
(n)
mate
(v)
milk
monkey
mouse
nag
native
(a)
native
(n)
pack
pad
pair
panda
plate
pride
python
ram
rat
sac
school
seal
sex
skin
social
tail
territory
tiger
tom
warren
wolf
yap
(v)
yap
(n)
young
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