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detumesce

/diːtjuːˈmɛs/ · verb

Meaning

  1. (of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
  2. (of a person) To lose one's sexual arousal: to experience the detumescence of one's sexual organs.
  3. To cause (a person) to detumesce: to induce detumescence.

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Sources

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