Emasculate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To castrate.
  • v. To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.
  • adj. Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
  • v. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.
  • v. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
  • v. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
  • adj. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deprive of the male functions; deprive of virility or procreative power; castrate; geld.
  • To deprive of masculine strength or vigor; weaken; render effeminate; vitiate by unmanly softness.
  • In general, to weaken; destroy the force or strength of; specifically, to weaken or destroy the literary force of, as a book or other writing, by too rigid an expurgation, or by injudicious editing.
  • To become unmanned or effeminate.
  • Deprived of the male functions; castrated; hence, unmanned; deprived of vigor.
  • In plant-breeding, to remove the anthers from a hermaphrodite flower in order to prevent self-fertilization. In case of monœcious plants, as Indian corn, the whole male inflorescence is removed. See detasseling.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. remove the testicles of a male animal
  • adj. having unsuitable feminine qualities
  • v. deprive of strength or vigor
    • Equivalent
    unmanly    unmanlike    unmanful   
    Verb Form
    emasculated    emasculates    emasculating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    weaken   
    Cross Reference
    castrate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    weaken    unmanned    weak   
     
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