# sexed

Pronunciation: say "SEKST" /sɛkst/

## Adjective

1. Having a libido or sex drive of a particular, often measurable, degree.
   - Simple: Having a particular amount of interest in sex, often called high or low.
   - _Biographers painted the composer as an intensely sexed and restless man._
   - _The clinic treats patients who feel less sexed than they once were._
3. Of either the male or the female sex.
   - Simple: Belonging to one of the two sexes, either male or female.
   - _Philosophers debated whether angels were sexed beings at all._
   - _In sexually reproducing species, every individual is sexed from birth._
4. Having had its sex identified, usually through inspection or testing.
   - Simple: Checked or sorted to show whether it is male or female.
   - _Commercial hatcheries ship sexed pullets to farmers who want only laying hens._
   - _The aquarium kept its sexed fish in separate tanks to manage breeding._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of sex. — simple past and past participle of sex
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of sex. Use this form when the sorting by male or female already happened.
   - _Hatchery workers sexed thousands of chicks each day._
   - _Once the ducklings had been sexed, they were separated into pens._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sexed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).