Meaning of EMASCULATE
| Pronunciation: | | [adj]i'maskyulit, [v]i'maskyuleyt, i'maskyu`leyt
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- [adj] having unsuitable feminine qualities
- [v] remove the testicles of a male animal
- [v] deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"
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| | Synonyms: | | castrate, castrate, cissy, demasculinise, demasculinize, effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly |
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| | See Also: | | caponise, caponize, desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, geld, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, weaken | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to
render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Luxury had not emasculated their minds. --V. Knox.
\E*mas"cu*late\, a.
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. ``Emasculate
slave.'' --Hammond.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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