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Emasculate

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Verb

1. castrate, emasculate

deprive of strength or vigor

Example Sentences:
'The Senate emasculated the law'

2. castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate

remove the testicles of a male animal

Adjective

3. cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish

having unsuitable feminine qualities

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Emasculate

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verb (ɪˈmæskjʊˌleɪt ) (transitive)
1. 
to remove the testicles of; castrate; geld
2. 
to deprive of vigour, effectiveness, etc
3. botany
to remove the stamens from (a flower) to prevent self-pollination for the purposes of plant breeding
adjective (ɪˈmæskjʊlɪt , -ˌleɪt)
4. 
castrated; gelded
5. 
deprived of strength, effectiveness, etc

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Emasculate

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verb transitiveWord forms: eˈmascuˌlated or eˈmascuˌlating
1. 
to deprive (a male) of the power to reproduce, as by removing the testicles; castrate; geld
2. 
to destroy the strength or force of; weaken
adjective
3. 
deprived of virility, strength, or vigor; effeminate

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Emasculate

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tr.v. e·mas·cu·lat·ed, e·mas·cu·lat·ing, e·mas·cu·lates
1. To castrate.
2. To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.
adj. (-lĭt)
Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor.

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