EMASCULATE

v. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

2.
v.

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.

3.
a.

Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate slave." Hammond.

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