emasculate
verb (used with object)
to deprive of strength; weaken.
emasculates
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present tense formof emasculate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“One guy presents himself as a kind of salt of the earth, a person you could hang out with, and then effectively emasculates the other by presenting them as the opposite.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2020
“I wanted a gender pronoun that was fun, and that immediately emasculates you—because you can’t roll your eyes and say ‘judy’ without being camp,” Mac told the Guardian during the “24-Decade” run.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2019
Eichhorst thinks he’s won the Lumen, allegedly the key to worldwide vampire eradication, but Palmer publicly emasculates him by yanking funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2015
Aftermath has caused a sensation in the United Kingdom because Cusk so devastatingly emasculates her husband.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2012
Castration has a strange effect: it emasculates both man, beast, and bird, and brings them to a near resemblance of the other sex.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Henry Morley
