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emasculate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
| Type of | desexualise, desexualize, fix, desex, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
| Has types | geld, caponize, cut, caponise |
| Derivation | emasculation |
Examples of emasculate
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The result was that between 1946 and 1949 Truman tried to emasculate the Marine Corps.
From the online.wsj.com
Fortunately, the Tories do not have enough of a mandate to completely emasculate the Lords.
From the guardian.co.uk
I'm not trying to emasculate them with my awesome map-reading skillz.
From the freep.com
The government would probably not have had to emasculate its new measures with clumsy compromises.
From the economist.com
Failing this, a secondary objective can be to emasculate the enemy before a conventional attack.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Incredibly, if Mr. Obama has his way, he will emasculate America's foreign policy and military power.
From the washingtontimes.com
Just because you spit out 8 kids doesn't give anyone the right to belittle and emasculate a person.
From the latimes.com
A 45-page memo obtained by the Daily Herald outlines the proposed changes that seemingly emasculate the position.
From the dailyherald.com
They didn't have to emasculate the Rams and win by 20 to satisfy a mostly subdued and passive 90,000 fans at FedEx Field.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"
- Effeminate: having unsuitable feminine qualities
- Remove the testicles of a male animal
- (emasculation) loss of power and masculinity
- To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld; To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness; Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak
- (emasculation) 1. In plants, the removal of male flowers or anthers to prevent self-pollination, such as removing tassels from corn, Zea mays, for hybridization. 2. In animals, castration, the removal of testicles, as done with some bulls to turn them into steers to produce tender meat.
- [v] to deprive of manhood, to humiliate
