emasculate
deprived of or lacking strength or vigor; effeminate.
Origin of emasculate
1Other words for emasculate
Other words from emasculate
- e·mas·cu·la·tion, noun
- e·mas·cu·la·tive, adjective
- e·mas·cu·la·tor, noun
- e·mas·cu·la·to·ry [ih-mas-kyuh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], /ɪˈmæs kyə ləˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjective
- self-e·mas·cu·la·tion, noun
- un·e·mas·cu·lat·ed, adjective
- un·e·mas·cu·la·tive, adjective
- un·e·mas·cu·la·to·ry, adjective
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How to use emasculate in a sentence
In terms of foreign policy—or, better put, foreign clout—the U.S. is going through a startling period of auto-emasculation.
No good political economist approves the emasculation of private effort by Government subsidy.
This has, in the course of time, led to national emasculation.
The Political Future of India | Lajpat RaiLanguage has to be softened down for singing, as it need not be for speech; and this softening approaches to emasculation.
Thomas Moore | Stephen GwynnI would risk violence a thousand times than risk the emasculation of a whole race.
Freedom's Battle | Mahatma Gandhi
They would have resisted at all costs national emasculation such as the said wrongs imply.
Freedom's Battle | Mahatma Gandhi
British Dictionary definitions for emasculate
to remove the testicles of; castrate; geld
to deprive of vigour, effectiveness, etc
botany to remove the stamens from (a flower) to prevent self-pollination for the purposes of plant breeding
castrated; gelded
deprived of strength, effectiveness, etc
Origin of emasculate
1Derived forms of emasculate
- emasculation, noun
- emasculative or emasculatory, adjective
- emasculator, noun
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