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Meaning of 'emasculate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Emasculate [ a.]
- Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
2 . Emasculate [ v. t.]
- To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
- To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

Meaning of 'emasculate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . emasculate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- deprive of strength or vigor
Example in sentence:
  • The Senate emasculated the law

Nearby Words:

emacerate emaceration emaciate emaciated emaciating emaciation emaculate emaculation emanant emanate

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