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Definition of emasculate in English: emasculateverb ɪˈmaskjʊleɪtiˈmæskjəˌleɪt [with object]1usually as adjective emasculatedDeprive (a man) of his male role or identity. 使无男子气 he feels emasculated, because he cannot control his sons' behaviour 连自己的儿子都管不住，他觉得自己没有一点男子气。 Example sentencesExamples - Is it because he feels emasculated by the sweet pink colour of his collar?
- Men had been undermined and emasculated to such an extent in a woman-dominated world that they would soon be little more than ‘sperm donors’, the article claimed.
- This put-upon male is continually emasculated by all of the females in his life.
- If the woman makes more money, has a better position, and is better educated, he will feel emasculated.
- Here, he has applied the treatment to Garrett and emasculated him in the process.
- The potential muggers and robbers, emasculated by being deprived of the macho symbol, which they have used as a substitute for courage, will be less active or less violent in their actions.
- While women become chaste and aloof, men are emasculated, unwilling to give expression to their physical desires.
- And Andrea Yates' pastor could have told us that any man emasculated by job loss and a demanding spouse would stray from his marriage bed.
- His suicide suggests he can't live with the fact that a truer strain of crime exists, one that has emasculated him both by violating him and making him feel frivolous in his chosen profession.
- The double bind of colonialism required that he go to London in order to become a man - to make enough money to marry his sweetheart - yet London has emasculated him and made him inarticulate.
- Years of psychological terrorisation have rendered them utterly incapable of deceit, and they gradually spend their existence in isolation, in garden sheds, fishing boats or in the company of other emasculated men.
- Apparently, the Malaysian Man feels totally emasculated when the woman pays on a date.
- Norwood agrees men have been emasculated by female empowerment, but has no answers as to how that can be addressed.
- ‘I felt angry, cuckolded, emasculated,’ he said.
- Because they had no recognized authority over their children, and could not control access to the bodies and labor of their wives, slave men were emasculated.
- Presumably it plugs him into some primitive elemental level of existence where he's not emasculated.
- He's clearly emasculated when he feels he has to sneak in a drink behind his wife's back, so in retaliation, he grows outwardly aggressive toward her.
- In the '80s, working-class males were perceived as being emasculated by the way all their old jobs had shifted, the mines and steelworks and all that being shut down.
- What is so curious is that emasculated men are now the norm rather than the exception.
- For a while, it looks like the perfect match, until he becomes emasculated by her drive.
Synonyms effeminate, effete, unmanly, unmasculine, girlish, namby-pamby - 1.1archaic Castrate (a man or male animal).
〈古〉阉割，将（男性，雄性动物）去势 Example sentencesExamples - I eventually won, because I accidentally almost emasculated Justin and Quinn was laughing too hard to get the remote back from me.
Synonyms castrate, neuter, geld, cut, desex, asexualize, sterilize, remove the testicles of unman North American & Australian alter informal doctor, fix rare evirate, caponize, eunuchize - 1.2Botany Remove the anthers from (a flower).
〔植〕使去雄（蕊） Example sentencesExamples - On each individual, three flowers were emasculated before anthesis and isolated using silk bags, while the fourth was taken as the pollen donor.
- However, there were several flowers open on each marked branch, so the reduction in geitonogamy from emasculating only one flower was probably minor.
- Cross-pollinated flowers were not emasculated, and pollinations were performed by rubbing anthers onto stigmas.
- Day-old flowers emasculated in the greenhouse experiment occasionally produced a fruit, indicating that the germination of self-pollen begins the day a flower opens.
- Flowers were emasculated by removing the anther tube with fine forceps.
2Make (someone or something) weaker or less effective. 使（人）无力；使（意见，法律）失去效力；削弱 the refusal to allow them to testify effectively emasculated the committee 不让他们作证有效地削弱了委员会。 Example sentencesExamples - There almost seems to be a resigned, a tacit acceptance, to try just to give Sharon a chance and see whether he can actually emasculate the militants in his policy.
- But, alas, its not and the Left cares more about emasculating the military then doing anything to support them.
- Although a strengthened PDS was the core of a woman's subsistence need, the international funding agencies and the Indian Government were emasculating it in the name of Structural Adjustment Policies.
- This emotional blackmail has the effect of emasculating the Left.
- McKibbin is right, however, to point out that massive Parliamentary majorities emasculate political parties and their ideologies.
- It is the fact that even sooner, midterm congressional elections can have the effect of emasculating their legislative programs.
- The British Government would like to emasculate the media and particularly the BBC for asking the pertinent questions and forming the inevitable conclusions.
- But there's a difference between updating the syllabus and emasculating it.
- It is even rumoured that the G8 nations, when they gather at Gleneagles Hotel this summer, intend to cut the UN down to size, perhaps even to emasculate it completely.
- It would emasculate the trial process, and undermine public confidence in the administration of criminal justice, if a standard of perfection were imposed that was incapable of attainment in practice.
- The mainstream will take from the street and ‘homogenize it’ and thus emasculating the movement by diluting its edginess.
- As Montrose and others develop, to entirely suppress their power or emasculate them would prevent her from having effective use of that power.
- Lord Templeman pointed out that this interpretation would not give effect to the manifest intention of the Act but would emasculate it.
- As a consequence of that vote, we amended Article 29 of the 1937 Constitution, and thereby began the process of emasculating the document itself.
- For Kleber, however, Proposition 36 not only emasculates successful drug court programs but could have a damaging effect on social policy.
- Byrd's fear is that such an action would deny Democrats any say in the selection of federal judges in much the same way the Enabling Act empowered Hitler's Nazi Party to emasculate its opponents in Germany's legislature.
- President Bush has even succeeded in emasculating the post-Watergate reform that was supposed to help curb Nixonian secrecy, the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
- Scalia's interpretation is implausible and would effectively emasculate the Amendment.
- Anybody who claims this bill is emasculating the equality law is grossly distorting the situation,’ he said.
- Until we politically and socially emasculate it, we will continue to be shackled by a fantasy of individualism and a Hobbesian worldview that can no longer be ameliorated by an endless frontier or global economic dominance.
Synonyms weaken, make feeble/feebler, debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, dilute, erode, undermine, impoverish, cripple, reduce the powers of remove the sting from, pull the teeth of informal water down
Derivativesnoun ɪmaskjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)nəˌmæskjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n That is why Germany encouraged its ally to take action against the Serbs in 1914, because a failure to take action would mean further emasculation of the Hapsburg Empire, rendering the Germans even more vulnerable. Example sentencesExamples - The research programme has been looking at the timing and the dose rate, the assessment of the damage caused by emasculation and the possible damage to the female parts of the plant.
- Either way, I'd had enough of witnessing the destruction of my working class heritage, watching it being stripped of its dignity and worst of all, colluding in its own emasculation.
- How is one to explain Europe's obsession with the United Nations on the one hand, and its emasculation of the principles on which that organization was founded?
- The support group for testicular cancer survivors portends the emasculation our society has embraced, wept over, and become addicted to.
nounɪˈmaskjʊleɪtə 1A person or thing that deprives a man of his male role or identity. 使无男子气 some thought we were angry emasculators unwilling to stand behind a man - 1.1 An implement used to castrate a male animal.
Example sentencesExamples - The use of emasculators simplifies the procedure and is definitely recommended to help reduce bleeding when castrating older calves (5-6 months).
- Some thought we were angry emasculators who were too concerned with images and not at all concerned with bone marrow.
- The double-crush emasculators crush the cord followed by a sharp cut reducing post-op bleeding and infection.
adjective ɪˈmaskjʊlət(ə)ri Especially fresh in memory is the disgruntled-looking young woman who, over and over again on television, ground out the emasculatory line: ‘No, not little Johnny Howard.’ Example sentencesExamples - Most feminists aren't particularly keen on emasculatory rituals (Valerie Solanas's tragic ‘Society for Cutting Up Men’ (SCUM!) notwithstanding).
- Fight Club is two films in one - Film A is about the awfulness of materialist consumer society and its emasculatory effects, and Film B is about the awfulness of fascism.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin emasculat- 'castrated', from the verb emasculare, from e- (variant of ex-, expressing a change of state) + masculus 'male'. Definition of emasculate in US English: emasculateverbēˈmaskyəˌlātiˈmæskjəˌleɪt [with object]1usually as adjective emasculatedDeprive (a man) of his male role or identity. 使无男子气 he feels emasculated, because he cannot control his sons' behavior 连自己的儿子都管不住，他觉得自己没有一点男子气。 Example sentencesExamples - Years of psychological terrorisation have rendered them utterly incapable of deceit, and they gradually spend their existence in isolation, in garden sheds, fishing boats or in the company of other emasculated men.
- What is so curious is that emasculated men are now the norm rather than the exception.
- Norwood agrees men have been emasculated by female empowerment, but has no answers as to how that can be addressed.
- His suicide suggests he can't live with the fact that a truer strain of crime exists, one that has emasculated him both by violating him and making him feel frivolous in his chosen profession.
- Men had been undermined and emasculated to such an extent in a woman-dominated world that they would soon be little more than ‘sperm donors’, the article claimed.
- And Andrea Yates' pastor could have told us that any man emasculated by job loss and a demanding spouse would stray from his marriage bed.
- This put-upon male is continually emasculated by all of the females in his life.
- If the woman makes more money, has a better position, and is better educated, he will feel emasculated.
- He's clearly emasculated when he feels he has to sneak in a drink behind his wife's back, so in retaliation, he grows outwardly aggressive toward her.
- Here, he has applied the treatment to Garrett and emasculated him in the process.
- Is it because he feels emasculated by the sweet pink colour of his collar?
- For a while, it looks like the perfect match, until he becomes emasculated by her drive.
- The double bind of colonialism required that he go to London in order to become a man - to make enough money to marry his sweetheart - yet London has emasculated him and made him inarticulate.
- While women become chaste and aloof, men are emasculated, unwilling to give expression to their physical desires.
- Presumably it plugs him into some primitive elemental level of existence where he's not emasculated.
- The potential muggers and robbers, emasculated by being deprived of the macho symbol, which they have used as a substitute for courage, will be less active or less violent in their actions.
- In the '80s, working-class males were perceived as being emasculated by the way all their old jobs had shifted, the mines and steelworks and all that being shut down.
- Apparently, the Malaysian Man feels totally emasculated when the woman pays on a date.
- Because they had no recognized authority over their children, and could not control access to the bodies and labor of their wives, slave men were emasculated.
- ‘I felt angry, cuckolded, emasculated,’ he said.
Synonyms effeminate, effete, unmanly, unmasculine, girlish, namby-pamby - 1.1archaic Castrate (a man or male animal).
〈古〉阉割，将（男性，雄性动物）去势 Example sentencesExamples - I eventually won, because I accidentally almost emasculated Justin and Quinn was laughing too hard to get the remote back from me.
Synonyms castrate, neuter, geld, cut, desex, asexualize, sterilize, remove the testicles of - 1.2Botany Remove the anthers from (a flower).
〔植〕使去雄（蕊） Example sentencesExamples - On each individual, three flowers were emasculated before anthesis and isolated using silk bags, while the fourth was taken as the pollen donor.
- Flowers were emasculated by removing the anther tube with fine forceps.
- Cross-pollinated flowers were not emasculated, and pollinations were performed by rubbing anthers onto stigmas.
- However, there were several flowers open on each marked branch, so the reduction in geitonogamy from emasculating only one flower was probably minor.
- Day-old flowers emasculated in the greenhouse experiment occasionally produced a fruit, indicating that the germination of self-pollen begins the day a flower opens.
2Make (a person, idea, or piece of legislation) weaker or less effective. 使（人）无力；使（意见，法律）失去效力；削弱 our winner-take-all elections emasculate fringe parties Example sentencesExamples - McKibbin is right, however, to point out that massive Parliamentary majorities emasculate political parties and their ideologies.
- The British Government would like to emasculate the media and particularly the BBC for asking the pertinent questions and forming the inevitable conclusions.
- This emotional blackmail has the effect of emasculating the Left.
- President Bush has even succeeded in emasculating the post-Watergate reform that was supposed to help curb Nixonian secrecy, the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
- Lord Templeman pointed out that this interpretation would not give effect to the manifest intention of the Act but would emasculate it.
- Although a strengthened PDS was the core of a woman's subsistence need, the international funding agencies and the Indian Government were emasculating it in the name of Structural Adjustment Policies.
- As Montrose and others develop, to entirely suppress their power or emasculate them would prevent her from having effective use of that power.
- For Kleber, however, Proposition 36 not only emasculates successful drug court programs but could have a damaging effect on social policy.
- The mainstream will take from the street and ‘homogenize it’ and thus emasculating the movement by diluting its edginess.
- Scalia's interpretation is implausible and would effectively emasculate the Amendment.
- As a consequence of that vote, we amended Article 29 of the 1937 Constitution, and thereby began the process of emasculating the document itself.
- Anybody who claims this bill is emasculating the equality law is grossly distorting the situation,’ he said.
- It is even rumoured that the G8 nations, when they gather at Gleneagles Hotel this summer, intend to cut the UN down to size, perhaps even to emasculate it completely.
- It would emasculate the trial process, and undermine public confidence in the administration of criminal justice, if a standard of perfection were imposed that was incapable of attainment in practice.
- But there's a difference between updating the syllabus and emasculating it.
- There almost seems to be a resigned, a tacit acceptance, to try just to give Sharon a chance and see whether he can actually emasculate the militants in his policy.
- But, alas, its not and the Left cares more about emasculating the military then doing anything to support them.
- Byrd's fear is that such an action would deny Democrats any say in the selection of federal judges in much the same way the Enabling Act empowered Hitler's Nazi Party to emasculate its opponents in Germany's legislature.
- It is the fact that even sooner, midterm congressional elections can have the effect of emasculating their legislative programs.
- Until we politically and socially emasculate it, we will continue to be shackled by a fantasy of individualism and a Hobbesian worldview that can no longer be ameliorated by an endless frontier or global economic dominance.
Synonyms weaken, make feeble, make feebler, debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, dilute, erode, undermine, impoverish, cripple, reduce the powers of
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin emasculat- ‘castrated’, from the verb emasculare, from e- (variant of ex-, expressing a change of state) + masculus ‘male’. |