emasculate

emasculate
    adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: {effeminate},
           {emasculate}, {epicene}, {cissy}, {sissified},
           {sissyish}, {sissy}]
    v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the
         law" [syn: {emasculate}, {castrate}]
    2: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: {emasculate},
       {castrate}, {demasculinize}, {demasculinise}]
    

Emasculate \E*mas"cu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emasculated};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Emasculating}.] [L. emasculare; e + masculus
   male, masculine. See {Male} masculine.]
   1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate
      power; to castrate; to geld.
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   2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to
      render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
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            Luxury had not emasculated their minds. --V. Knox.
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emasculate \e*mas"cu*late\, a.
   Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate
   slave." --Hammond.
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41 Moby Thesaurus words for "emasculate":
      alter, castrate, cripple, debilitate, demasculinize, desex,
      desexualize, devitalize, disable, effeminate, effeminatize,
      effeminize, enervate, etiolate, eunuchize, exhaust, fix, forceless,
      geld, hamstring, hobble, impotent, inadequate, incapacitate,
      ineffective, ineffectual, lame, maim, sissify, soften, spay,
      spineless, sterilize, unman, unnerve, unsex, unstring, wan, weak,
      wing, womanize