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emasculate
emasculate
4 definitions found
for emasculate
From 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.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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. [1913 Webster] 2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. [1913 Webster] Luxury had not emasculated their minds. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
emasculate
adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate,
emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified,
sissyish, sissy]
v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the
law" [syn: emasculate, castrate]
2: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: emasculate,
castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
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