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Verb: emasculate  i'mas-kyu-leyt
  1. Deprive of strength or vigour
    "The Senate emasculated the law"
    - castrate
     
  2. Remove the testicles of a male animal
    - castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise [Brit]
Adjective: emasculate  i'mas-kyu-lut
  1. Having unsuitable feminine qualities
    - effeminate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy

Derived forms: emasculating, emasculates, emasculated

See also: emasculation, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly

Type of: desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, fix, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, unsex, weaken

Encyclopedia: Emasculate