Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To castrate.
- transitive verb To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.
- adjective Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deprived of the male functions; castrated; hence, unmanned; deprived of vigor.
- In plant-breeding, to remove the anthers from a hermaphrodite flower in order to prevent self-fertilization. In case of monœcious plants, as Indian corn, the whole male inflorescence is removed. See
detasseling . - To deprive of the male functions; deprive of virility or procreative power; castrate; geld.
- To deprive of masculine strength or vigor; weaken; render effeminate; vitiate by unmanly softness.
- In general, to weaken; destroy the force or strength of; specifically, to weaken or destroy the literary force of, as a book or other writing, by too rigid an expurgation, or by injudicious editing.
- To become unmanned or effeminate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
- transitive verb To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
- adjective Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Deprived of
virility orvigor ;unmanned ;weak . - verb transitive To
deprive ofvirile orprocreative power ; tocastrate ; togeld . - verb transitive To deprive of
masculine vigor orspirit ; toweaken ; to rendereffeminate ; tovitiate by unmanlysoftness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove the testicles of a male animal
- adjective having unsuitable feminine qualities
- verb deprive of strength or vigor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Buthelezi called on his supporters to resist the ANC-led central government, which he claimed was trying to "emasculate" KwaZulu-Natal, which is controlled by the IFP.
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He criticised central government for seeking to "emasculate" the Zulu Kingdom by reducing it to an administrative centre with no political power.
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When a woman rules, peace is "emasculate"; when a man rules, peace is "glorious"!
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I am disposed to agree with you about the "emasculate" and
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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I am disposed to agree with you about the "emasculate" and
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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November 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) along with other civil society groups has charged the government with planning to "emasculate" the Right to Information (RTI) Act by bringing in amendments and is organising a day-long protest here Saturday against the alleged move.
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November 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) along with other civil society groups has charged the government with planning to "emasculate" the Right to Information (RTI) Act by bringing in amendments and is organising a day-long protest here Saturday against the alleged move.
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TALLAHASSEE - The NCAA must release documents on Florida State's appeal of an academic cheating penalty, a Florida judge ruled Friday, noting that the NCAA's rationale for keeping the documents secret would "emasculate" the state's broad public access laws.
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The NCAA must release documents on Florida State's appeal of an academic cheating penalty, a Florida judge ruled Friday, noting that the NCAA's rationale for keeping the documents secret would 'emasculate' the state's broad public access laws.
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But it would take several months and global sourcing on the part of the Marines, and it would "emasculate" strategic reserves, he said.
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