emasculate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
emasculate
v.
castrate; weaken
Emasculation
emasculate
Verb
1. deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"
(synonym) castrate
(hypernym) weaken
(derivation) emasculation
2. remove the testicles of a male animal
(synonym) castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
(hypernym) sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
(hyponym) caponize, caponise
(derivation) castration, emasculation
Adjective
1. having unsuitable feminine qualities
(synonym) effeminate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy
(similar) unmanly, unmanful, unmanlike
emasculare
v.
emasculate, castrate; weaken
Emasculate
(v. t.)
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
(v. t.)
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
(a.)
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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