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emasculate
[ verb ih-mas-kyuh-leyt; adjective ih-mas-kyuh-lit, -leyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to deprive of strength; weaken:
The law was emasculated by its opponents, making it largely ineffective by the time it was passed.
Synonyms: soften, devitalize, undermine, debilitate
- to make (a man) feel less masculine:
Though some men might feel emasculated not making an income, I'm very happy as a stay-at-home father.
- to remove the testicles of; castrate.
adjective
- deprived of or lacking strength or vigor; effeminate.
emasculate
verb
- 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
adjective
- castrated; gelded
- deprived of strength, effectiveness, etc
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Derived Forms
- eˈmasculative, adjective
- eˌmascuˈlation, noun
- eˈmascuˌlator, noun
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Other Words From
- e·mas·cu·la·tion [ih-mas-ky, uh, -, ley, -sh, uh, n], noun
- e·mas·cu·la·tive adjective
- e·mas·cu·la·tor noun
- e·mas·cu·la·to·ry [ih-, mas, -ky, uh, -l, uh, -tawr-ee], 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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Word History and Origins
Origin of emasculate1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of emasculate1
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Example Sentences
We will see Obama strategically and comically emasculate his political rivals.
But executives have a lot to do with the larger agenda to emasculate and colonize.
And it seemed like Nic was trying to emasculate and castrate this supposedly clichéd action hero.
Then, by a curious contrivance, he made the fierce hunter emasculate himself.
This is an invitation to all who can to emasculate themselves.
We should be obliged to emasculate Socialism, to dilute it, in order to win a support of questionable value.
And, as with other masculine and muscular females, her progeny are neuter working-females (sterile) and emasculate males (drones).
Among decadent races and savages, the emasculate sons of deteriorate mothers assert their masculine authority otherwise.
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