emasculate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: e=mas=cu=late

CIDE DICTIONARY

emasculate, v. t. [L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine. See Male masculine.].

•  To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.  [1913 Webster]
•  To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.  [1913 Webster]

  "Luxury had not emasculated their minds."  [1913 Webster]

emasculate, a. 

 Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.  Hammond.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

emasculate, v. & adj.
--v.tr.
1 deprive of force or vigour; make feeble or ineffective.
2 castrate.
--adj.
1 deprived of force or vigour.
2 castrated.
3 effeminate.

Derivative

emasculation n. emasculator n. emasculatory adj.

Etymology

L emasculatus past part. of emasculare (as E-, masculus dimin. of mas male)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

emasculate

Cleanness

VB be clean, render clean, clean, cleanse, mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up, wash, lave, launder, buck, absterge, deterge, decrassify, clear, purify, depurate, despumate, defecate, purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack, filter, filtrate, drain, strain, disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize, whitewash, castrate, emasculate, sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep, rout out, clear out, sweep out, make a clean sweep of.

Impotence

VB be impotent, not have a leg to stand on, vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou, vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents, collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop, go by the board, go by the wayside, go up in smoke, end in smoke, render powerless, deprive of power, disable, disenable, disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands, double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of, throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote, ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns, take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel, break the neck, break the back, unhinge, unfit, put out of gear, unman, unnerve, enervate, emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix, shatter, exhaust, weaken.

N impotence, inability, disability, disablement, impuissance, imbecility, incapacity, incapability, inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity, indocility, invalidity, disqualification, inefficiency, wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy, paper tiger, Quaker gun, inefficacy, failure, helplessness, prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition, emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy, cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle, eunuch, powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt, crippled, disabled, armless, harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied, imbecile, nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless, emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged, water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless, laid on one's back, done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing, ineffectual, inadequate, inefficacious, der kranke Mann, desirous still but impotent to rise, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.