Definitions for: Emasculate

[adj] having unsuitable feminine qualities
[v] remove the testicles of a male animal
[v] deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"

Webster (1913) Definition: E*mas"cu*late, v. t. [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.

E*mas"cu*late, a.
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. ``Emasculate
slave.'' --Hammond.

Synonyms: castrate, castrate, cissy, demasculinise, demasculinize, effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly

See Also: caponise, caponize, desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, geld, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, weaken

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