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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]:
emasculated \emasculated\ adjective
1. having the testicles removed; -- of a male animal.
Syn: cut, gelded, sexless. [WordNet 1.5]
2. deprived of virility, vigor, or manly character. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
emasculated
adjective: (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut horse" [syn: {cut}, {gelded}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "emasculated": asexual, bad, castrated, cold, crippled, debilitated, demasculinized, devitalized, disabled, effeminized, emasculate, enervated, eunuchized, frigid, frustrated, game, gelded, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, hobbling, impotent, incapacitated, lame, limping, lustless, maimed, marrowless, nerveless, neuter, neutral, pithless, sexless, sinewless, spavined, unmanned, unnerved, unsexed, unsexual
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