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emasculate

[ verb ih-mas-kyuh-leyt; adjective ih-mas-kyuh-lit, -leyt ]

verb (used with object)

, e·mas·cu·lat·ed, e·mas·cu·lat·ing.
  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. to remove the testicles of; castrate.


adjective

  1. deprived of or lacking strength or vigor; effeminate.

emasculate

verb

  1. to remove the testicles of; castrate; geld
  2. to deprive of vigour, effectiveness, etc
  3. botany to remove the stamens from (a flower) to prevent self-pollination for the purposes of plant breeding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. castrated; gelded
  2. deprived of strength, effectiveness, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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

First recorded in 1600–10; from Latin ēmasculātus (past participle of ēmasculāre ), equivalent to ē- “from”+ māscul(us) “male” + -ātus adjective suffix; e- 1, male, -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of emasculate1

C17: from Latin ēmasculāre, from masculus male; see masculine
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Example Sentences

So as Bennifer make their triumphant return, they’re no longer faced with a narrative in which cold, man-eating Lopez is emasculating and humiliating serious, respectable Affleck.

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America still struggles with the assumption that it’s emasculating for men to be with powerful women — even the jokes about Bill Clinton potentially becoming “first dude” in 2016 are testament to this fact.

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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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