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1. Deprive of strength or vigour
   "The Senate emasculated the law";
   - castrate
    
2. Remove the testicles of a male animal
   - castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise [Brit]

1. Having unsuitable feminine qualities
   "an emasculate man";
   - effeminate, epicene, cissy [Brit], sissified, sissyish, sissy, camp

Derived forms: emasculates, emasculated, emasculating

See also: poncey [Brit], poncy [Brit], unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly

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

Encyclopedia: Emasculate