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Definition emasculate

Etymology

From Latin emasculare or emascul? (“to emasculate”), from ?- (a variant of ex- (suffix denoting privation), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e??s (“out”)) + masculus (“male, masculine; a man”) + -? (“suffix forming verbs”). Masculus is derived from m?s (“a man, a male”) +? -culus (suffix forming a diminutive of a noun).

Adjective

emasculate (comparative more emasculate, superlative most emasculate)

1. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.

Verb

emasculate (third-person singular simple present emasculates, present participle emasculating, simple past and past participle emasculated)

1. (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld. [from early 17th c.]
2. (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. [from early 17th c.]
3. (transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.

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