Emasculated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Emasculate \E*mas"cu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emasculated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Emasculating}.] [L. emasculare; e + masculus
     male, masculine. See {Male} masculine.]
     1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate
        power; to castrate; to geld.
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     2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to
        render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
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              Luxury had not emasculated their minds. --V. Knox.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  emasculated \emasculated\ adj.
     1. having the testicles removed; -- of a male animal.
  
     Syn: cut, gelded, sexless.
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     2. deprived of virility, vigor, or manly character.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  emasculated
       adj : (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut
             horse" [syn: {cut}, {gelded}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "emasculated":
     asexual, bad, castrated, cold, crippled, debilitated,
     demasculinized, devitalized, disabled, effeminized, emasculate,
     enervated, eunuchized, frigid, frustrated, game, gelded, halt,
     halting, hamstrung, handicapped, hobbling, impotent, incapacitated,
     lame, limping, lustless, maimed, marrowless, nerveless, neuter,
     neutral, pithless, sexless, sinewless, spavined, unmanned,
     unnerved, unsexed, unsexual