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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Emasculate \E*mas"cu*late\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Emasculated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emasculating}.] [L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine. See {Male} masculine.]
1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Luxury had not emasculated their minds. --V. Knox.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
emasculate \e*mas"cu*late\, adjective Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. ''Emasculate slave.'' --Hammond.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
emasculate
adjective: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: {effeminate}, {epicene}, {cissy}, {sissified}, {sissyish}, {sissy}]
verb
1: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" [syn: {castrate}]
2: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: {castrate}, {demasculinize}, {demasculinise}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "emasculate": alter, castrate, cripple, debilitate, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, devitalize, disable, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, enervate, etiolate, eunuchize, exhaust, fix, forceless, geld, hamstring, hobble, impotent, inadequate, incapacitate, ineffective, ineffectual, lame, maim, sissify, soften, spay, spineless, sterilize, unman, unnerve, unsex, unstring, wan, weak, wing, womanize
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