emasculate
verb (used with object)
to deprive of strength; weaken.
has emasculated
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present perfectof emasculate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Franco has emasculated ambitious contenders for power to the point that anything could happen once he is gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
And if this is so to the end of time, man will be the same, I suppose, until civilization has emasculated the whole of nature and so ends the world!
From Beyond The Rocks A Love Story by Elinor Glyn
