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Webster 1913 Edition

emasculate

e-mas′cu-late

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Adj.
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
“Emasculate slave.”
Hammond.

Webster 1828 Edition

Emasculate

EM`ASCULATE

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Verb.
T.
[Low L. emasculo, from e and masculus, a male. See Male.]
1.
To castrate; to deprive a male of certain parts which characterize the sex; to geld; to deprive of virility.
2.
To deprive of masculine strength or vigor; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Women emasculate a monarch's reign.
To emasculate the spirits.

EM`ASCULATE

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Adj.
Unmanned; deprived of vigor.

Definition 2024

emasculate

emasculate

English

Adjective

emasculate ‎(comparative more emasculate, superlative most emasculate)

  1. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

Translations

Verb

emasculate ‎(third-person singular simple present emasculates, present participle emasculating, simple past and past participle emasculated)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.
  2. (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
    • V. Knox
      Luxury had not emasculated their minds.

Translations

Etymology

From Latin emasculō, from e- ‎(“away, out of”) + masculus ‎(“male”) + -ō (verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ĭ.măsʹkyə.lāt', IPA(key): /ɪˈmæs.kjəˌleɪt/

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