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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To castrate.
  2. v. To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.
  3. adj. Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To deprive of the male functions; deprive of virility or procreative power; castrate; geld.
  2. To deprive of masculine strength or vigor; weaken; render effeminate; vitiate by unmanly softness.
  3. 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.
  4. To become unmanned or effeminate.
  5. Deprived of the male functions; castrated; hence, unmanned; deprived of vigor.
  6. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
  2. v. transitive To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.
  3. v. transitive To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
  2. v. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
  3. adj. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. remove the testicles of a male animal
  2. adj. having unsuitable feminine qualities
  3. v. deprive of strength or vigor

Etymologies

  1. From Latin emasculō, from e- ("away, out of") + masculus ("male") + -ō (verbal suffix). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin ēmasculāre, ēmasculāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + masculus, male, diminutive of mās, male, man. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “He criticised central government for seeking to "emasculate" the Zulu Kingdom by reducing it to an administrative centre with no political power.”

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  • “Buthelezi called on his supporters to resist the ANC-led central government, which he claimed was trying to "emasculate" KwaZulu-Natal, which is controlled by the IFP.”

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  • “When a woman rules, peace is "emasculate"; when a man rules, peace is "glorious"!”

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  • “I am disposed to agree with you about the "emasculate" and”

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  • “But it would take several months and global sourcing on the part of the Marines, and it would "emasculate" strategic reserves, he said.”

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  • “November 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) along with other civil society groups has charged the government with planning to "emasculate" the Right to Information (RTI) Act by bringing in amendments and is organising a day-long protest here Saturday against the alleged move.”

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  • “TALLAHASSEE - The NCAA must release documents on Florida State's appeal of an academic cheating penalty, a Florida judge ruled Friday, noting that the NCAA's rationale for keeping the documents secret would "emasculate" the state's broad public access laws.”

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  • “The NCAA must release documents on Florida State's appeal of an academic cheating penalty, a Florida judge ruled Friday, noting that the NCAA's rationale for keeping the documents secret would 'emasculate' the state's broad public access laws.”

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  • “Cooper said the NCAA's rationale for keeping the documents secret would "emasculate”

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  • “a Florida judge ruled Friday, noting that the NCAA's rationale for keeping the documents secret would "emasculate" the state's broad public access laws.”

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. weaken
  1. unmanned
  1. weak

equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘emasculate’

  1. unmanly
  1. unmanlike
  1. unmanful

hypernyms (1)

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  1. weaken

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. geld
  2. evirate
  1. emasculatory
  2. castrate
  1. devirilize
  2. emasculative
  1. unmasculate
  2. glib
  1. unman
  2. alter

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  • papageno "We don't want these days to ever end.
    We just want to emasculate them forever."
    -"Suffer for Fashion," Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Nov 22, 2007

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