Emasculate \E*mas"cu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emasculated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Emasculating.] [L. emasculare; e + masculus
male, masculine. See Male masculine.]
1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate
power; to castrate; to geld.
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2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to
render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
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Luxury had not emasculated their minds. --V. Knox.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
emasculate \e*mas"cu*late\, a.
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate
slave." --Hammond.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
emasculate
adj : having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, epicene,
cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy]
v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the
law" [syn: castrate]
2: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: castrate, demasculinize,
demasculinise]
WordNet (r) 2.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "emasculate":
alter, castrate, cripple, debilitate, demasculinize, desex,
desexualize, devitalize, disable, effeminate, effeminatize,
effeminize, enervate, etiolate, eunuchize, exhaust, fix, forceless,
geld, hamstring, hobble, impotent, inadequate, incapacitate,
ineffective, ineffectual, lame, maim, sissify, soften, spay,
spineless, sterilize, unman, unnerve, unsex, unstring, wan, weak,
wing, womanize
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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