unman
verb (used with object)
to deprive of courage or fortitude; break down the manly spirit of.
unmans
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present tense formof unman (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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"Wind. Trees rustling. A wolf. Which sound is it that unmans you so, Gared?"
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Nothing more unmans a man than to take away from him the spur of necessity, which urges him onward and upward to the goal of his ambition.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Orison Swett Marden
"It is the disgrace,—that 's what unmans me."
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
Tears choked his utterance; but stifling his emotion, he exclaimed, "Athenians! if ye would know what it is that thus unmans a soul capable of meeting death with calmness, behold, and judge for yourselves!"
From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Francis Child
Sometimes feeling the spontaneous courage of a man, I seem to wish for the decisive minute; the next instant a message from my wife, sent by one of the children, quite unmans me.
From Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. by William Priest
