desemanticize

To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization.

To lose semantic content; to undergo desemanticization.

The purposive meaning desemanticizes and a new marker is drafted in to reinforce the purposive meaning.

[…] that of preceding and modifying another word, and in gaining the new grammatical meaning of modification. They desemanticise, in losing the descriptive meaning that head nouns have in descriptive use, […]