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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. deprive of strength or vigor;
- Example: "The Senate emasculated the law"
[syn: emasculate, castrate]

2. remove the testicles of a male animal;
[syn: emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having unsuitable feminine qualities;
[syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

emasculate \e*mas"cu*late\, a. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate slave." --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Emasculate \E*mas"cu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emasculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emasculating.] [L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine. See Male masculine.] 1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

emasculate adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy] v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" [syn: emasculate, castrate] 2: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "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