emasculate
deprived of or lacking strength or vigor; effeminate.
Origin of emasculate
1Other words for emasculate
Other words from emasculate
- e·mas·cu·la·tion, noun
- e·mas·cu·la·tive, adjective
- e·mas·cu·la·tor, noun
- e·mas·cu·la·to·ry [ih-mas-kyuh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], /ɪˈmæs kyə ləˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjective
- self-e·mas·cu·la·tion, noun
- un·e·mas·cu·lat·ed, adjective
- un·e·mas·cu·la·tive, adjective
- un·e·mas·cu·la·to·ry, adjective
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How to use emasculate in a sentence
Regarding the cojones: Jake had none, he had been emasculated by a war injury.
Kyle Smith's denouncement of Free to Be in Sunday's New York Post because it “emasculated men” is totally baffling.
And in the 2010 comedy Grown Ups, Chris Rock plays a stay-at-home father who is mercilessly emasculated by his own mother-in-law.
Pop Culture’s House Husbands Lag Behind the Reality in American Homes | Soraya Roberts | June 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAmerica, and Americans, should reject “the doctrine of ignoble ease” that had emasculated the nation.
American Dreams: ‘The Call of the Wild’ by Jack London | Nathaniel Rich | January 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTObama pushing assault-weapons ban, Harry Reid not buying (Obama emasculated even by a Dem).
The Alternative Universe Where Mitt Romney Is A Cool Guy | Michael Tomasky | July 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
These deities were attended by emasculated priests and the priests in oriental costume paraded Rome in religious ceremony.
The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races | Sanger Brown, IIIt is unfortunate if the boy beholds in these two essential institutions merely an emasculated police.
The Minister and the Boy | Allan HobenThe cult associates, especially the priests, lacerated and emasculated themselves in the fury of religious excitement.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtWhen tired of this brutality, they emasculated their wretched victim with a common table-knife.
Lands of the Slave and the Free | Henry A. MurrayThis affirmed the constitutionality of the statute at all points; but, at the same time, emasculated it most effectually.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations | William Z. Ripley
British Dictionary definitions for emasculate
to remove the testicles of; castrate; geld
to deprive of vigour, effectiveness, etc
botany to remove the stamens from (a flower) to prevent self-pollination for the purposes of plant breeding
castrated; gelded
deprived of strength, effectiveness, etc
Origin of emasculate
1Derived forms of emasculate
- emasculation, noun
- emasculative or emasculatory, adjective
- emasculator, noun
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