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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:

Adjectives

Similar:

unmanful; unmanlike; unmanly (not possessing qualities befitting a man)

 II. (verb) 

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:

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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:

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Derivation:

emasculation (loss of power and masculinity)

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