EMASCULATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does emasculate mean?
• EMASCULATE (adjective)
The adjective EMASCULATE has 1 sense:
1. having unsuitable feminine qualities
Familiarity information: EMASCULATE used as an adjective is very rare.
• EMASCULATE (verb)
The verb EMASCULATE has 2 senses:
1. deprive of strength or vigor
2. remove the testicles of a male animal
Familiarity information: EMASCULATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EMASCULATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Having unsuitable feminine qualities
Synonyms:
sissy; sissified; emasculate; effeminate; cissy; sissyish; epicene
Similar:
unmanful; unmanlike; unmanly (not possessing qualities befitting a man)
• EMASCULATE (verb)
Meaning:
Deprive of strength or vigor
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
castrate; emasculate
Context example:
The Senate emasculated the law
Hypernyms (to "emasculate" is one way to...):
weaken (lessen the strength of)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Remove the testicles of a male animal
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
demasculinise; demasculinize; emasculate; castrate
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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Somebody ----s somebody
