| 单词 | emasculate |
| 释义 | emasculate (once / 10582 pages) vadj When you emasculate something or someone, you take away its strength. Some people believe that having a tough female boss can emasculate male employees. The Latin emasculatus literally means "to castrate," though it is usually used figuratively, the same way emasculate is sometimes used to suggest a man isn't very manly. You may have seen bullies hassle a guy, saying he can't beat up anyone, or hit a curveball, or. . .you get the idea. Such emasculating is also insulting to women because it suggests strength and female are opposites. WORD FAMILYemasculate: emasculated, emasculates, emasculating, emasculation USAGE EXAMPLESToday, it is an emasculated and fragmented workforce overseen by self-interested cronies and contractors. Time(Dec 02, 2016) PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump will take a number of initiatives which, for the most part, will be designed to emasculate unions and collective bargaining. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) Alpha males are leaders, like Trump; beta males are weak and emasculated, meaning all men who disagree with them. Los Angeles Times(Nov 15, 2016) 1v deprive of strength or vigor The Senate emasculated the law Syn|Hyper castrate weaken lessen the strength of 2v remove the testicles of a male animal Syn|Hypo|Hyper castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize caponise, caponize convert a cock into a capon cut, geldcut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex make infertile 3adj having unsuitable feminine qualities Syn cissy, effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly not possessing qualities befitting a man |
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