Emasculate Definition

ĭ-măskyə-lāt

emasculated, emasculates, emasculating

verb

emasculated, emasculates, emasculating

To castrate.

American Heritage

To deprive (a male) of the power to reproduce, as by removing the testicles; castrate; geld.

Webster's New World

To destroy the strength or force of; weaken.

A novel emasculated by censorship.

Webster's New World

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

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adjective

Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor; effeminate.

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Origin of Emasculate

Latin ēmasculāre ēmasculāt- ē-, ex- ex- masculus male diminutive of mās male, man

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin emasculō, from e- (“away, out of”) + masculus (“male”) + -ō (verbal suffix).

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