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EMASCULATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having unsuitable feminine qualities
Synonyms:
cissy; effeminate; emasculate; epicene; sissified; sissy; sissyish
Classified under:
Similar:
unmanful; unmanlike; unmanly (not possessing qualities befitting a man)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they emasculate ... he / she / it emasculates
Past simple: emasculated
Past participle: emasculated
-ing form: emasculating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the testicles of a male animal
Synonyms:
castrate; demasculinise; demasculinize; emasculate
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "emasculate" is one way to...):
desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex (make infertile)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "emasculate"):
caponise; caponize (convert a cock into a capon)
cut; geld (cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
emasculation (neutering a male animal by removing the testicles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Deprive of strength or vigor
Example:
The Senate emasculated the law
Synonyms:
castrate; emasculate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "emasculate" is one way to...):
weaken (lessen the strength of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
emasculation (loss of power and masculinity)
