unman
verb (used with object)
to deprive of courage or fortitude; break down the manly spirit of.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I feel that I am becoming unmanned, and that I am unmanning you also; I ask your pardon.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black