Verb: emasculate i'mas-kyu,leyt
- Deprive of masculinity or male identity; make weak and unmanly
"He felt emasculated after losing his job and becoming financially dependent on his wife";
- evirate [rare]
- Deprive of strength or vigour
"The Senate emasculated the law";
- castrate
- [archaic] Remove the testicles of a male animal
"They emasculated the bull to make it more docile";
- castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise [Brit], evirate [rare]
- Weal or having unsuitable feminine qualities
"The actor's emasculate portrayal of the character was criticized as stereotypical";
- effeminate, epicene, cissy [Brit, informal], sissified [informal], sissyish [informal], sissy [informal], camp [informal], campy [informal]
Derived forms: emasculating, emasculates, emasculated
See also: poncey [Brit, informal], poncy [Brit, informal], unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly
Type of: desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, fix, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, unsex, weaken
Encyclopedia: Emasculate