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emasculate
e·mas·cu·late E0100500 (ĭ-măs′kyə-lāt′)tr.v. e·mas·cu·lat·ed, e·mas·cu·lat·ing, e·mas·cu·lates 1. To castrate.2. To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.adj. (-lĭt) Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor.
[Latin ēmasculāre, ēmasculāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + masculus, male, diminutive of mās, male, man.]
e·mas′cu·la′tion n.e·mas′cu·la′tive, e·mas′cu·la·to′ry (-lə-tôr′ē) adj.e·mas′cu·la′tor n.emasculate vb (tr) 1. to remove the testicles of; castrate; geld2. to deprive of vigour, effectiveness, etc3. (Horticulture) botany to remove the stamens from (a flower) to prevent self-pollination for the purposes of plant breeding adj 4. castrated; gelded 5. deprived of strength, effectiveness, etc [C17: from Latin ēmasculāre, from masculus male; see masculine] eˌmascuˈlation n eˈmasculative, eˈmasculatory adj eˈmascuˌlator ne•mas•cu•late (v. ɪˈmæs kyəˌleɪt; adj. -lɪt, -ˌleɪt)
v. -lat•ed, -lat•ing,
adj. v.t. 1. to castrate. 2. to deprive of strength or vigor; weaken. adj. 3. deprived of strength or vigor; gelded. [1600–10; < Latin ēmasculātus, past participle of ēmasculāre=ē- e- + -masculāre, derivative of māsculus male] e•mas`cu•la′tion, n. e•mas′cu•la`tor, n. emasculate
Past participle: emasculated
Gerund: emasculating
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| emasculate | | emasculate |
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| I emasculate | | you emasculate | | he/she/it emasculates | | we emasculate | | you emasculate | | they emasculate |
| Preterite |
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| I emasculated | | you emasculated | | he/she/it emasculated | | we emasculated | | you emasculated | | they emasculated |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am emasculating | | you are emasculating | | he/she/it is emasculating | | we are emasculating | | you are emasculating | | they are emasculating |
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| I have emasculated | | you have emasculated | | he/she/it has emasculated | | we have emasculated | | you have emasculated | | they have emasculated |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was emasculating | | you were emasculating | | he/she/it was emasculating | | we were emasculating | | you were emasculating | | they were emasculating |
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| I had emasculated | | you had emasculated | | he/she/it had emasculated | | we had emasculated | | you had emasculated | | they had emasculated |
| Future |
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| I will emasculate | | you will emasculate | | he/she/it will emasculate | | we will emasculate | | you will emasculate | | they will emasculate |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have emasculated | | you will have emasculated | | he/she/it will have emasculated | | we will have emasculated | | you will have emasculated | | they will have emasculated |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be emasculating | | you will be emasculating | | he/she/it will be emasculating | | we will be emasculating | | you will be emasculating | | they will be emasculating |
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| I have been emasculating | | you have been emasculating | | he/she/it has been emasculating | | we have been emasculating | | you have been emasculating | | they have been emasculating |
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| I will have been emasculating | | you will have been emasculating | | he/she/it will have been emasculating | | we will have been emasculating | | you will have been emasculating | | they will have been emasculating |
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| I had been emasculating | | you had been emasculating | | he/she/it had been emasculating | | we had been emasculating | | you had been emasculating | | they had been emasculating |
| Conditional |
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| I would emasculate | | you would emasculate | | he/she/it would emasculate | | we would emasculate | | you would emasculate | | they would emasculate |
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| I would have emasculated | | you would have emasculated | | he/she/it would have emasculated | | we would have emasculated | | you would have emasculated | | they would have emasculated |
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | emasculate - deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"castrateweaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body" | | 2. | emasculate - remove the testicles of a male animaldemasculinise, demasculinize, castratecaponise, caponize - convert a cock into a capongeld, cut - cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses); "the vet gelded the young horse"desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" | | Adj. | 1. | emasculate - having unsuitable feminine qualitiescissy, effeminate, sissified, sissy, sissyish, epiceneunmanful, unmanlike, unmanly - not possessing qualities befitting a man |
emasculateverb weaken, soften, cripple, impoverish, debilitate, reduce the power of, disempower, enfeeble, make feeble, enervate, deprive of forceTranslationsemasculate
emasculate [e-mas´ku-lāt] to castrate a male.emasculate
Synonyms for emasculateverb weakenSynonyms- weaken
- soften
- cripple
- impoverish
- debilitate
- reduce the power of
- disempower
- enfeeble
- make feeble
- enervate
- deprive of force
Synonyms for emasculateverb deprive of strength or vigorSynonymsRelated Wordsverb remove the testicles of a male animalSynonyms- demasculinise
- demasculinize
- castrate
Related Words- caponise
- caponize
- geld
- cut
- desex
- desexualise
- desexualize
- sterilise
- sterilize
- unsex
- fix
adj having unsuitable feminine qualitiesSynonyms- cissy
- effeminate
- sissified
- sissy
- sissyish
- epicene
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