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Meanings of emasculate in English

Catalan
mutilar
Spanish
emascular

To remove the testicles (and sometimes penis) of a male animal or to render the testicles unfunctional.

        mutilar
        Portuguese
        capar
        Catalan
        castrar

        Remove the testicles of a male animal.

              capar

              Having unsuitable feminine qualities.

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                  Usage of emasculate in English
                  1
                  Since Paul can't eliminate the Fed outright, he's trying to emasculate it.
                  Reuters
                  2
                  Gender questions emasculate, if her publishers will excuse the terms, criticism.
                  The Irish Times
                  3
                  But, it is said, that the fine arts soften and emasculate the mind.
                  The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. / Composed f...
                  4
                  Where it should be nurturing great talent it prefers instead to emasculate it.
                  The Irish Times
                  5
                  Do not emasculate, as that would be a waste of force.
                  The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga / Including the Practices and ...
                  6
                  One should never emasculate oneself by abstaining from any enjoyment.
                  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
                  7
                  The Gauchos in revenge determined to emasculate him and render him for the future harmless.
                  The Voyage of the Beagle
                  8
                  Some men are reluctant to accept a movement that they, wrongly, assume will emasculate them.
                  The Guardian
                  9
                  Any man would be proud to have you emasculate him in front of his friends.
                  More bitter than death: an emma fielding mystery
                  10
                  He feared that the proposed reforms would emasculate victim participation, reducing it to a symbolic gesture.
                  The Guardian
                  11
                  To wait for majorities at all times is to enervate and emasculate the working class movement.
                  The Red Conspiracy
                  12
                  They, too, read to be distracted, choosing an emasculate literature which panders to their essential dilettantism.
                  Personality in Literature
                  13
                  To this day, however, he remains convinced that 'forces from the other side' attempted to emasculate him.
                  Hell House
                  14
                  By eliminating one of the Great Persons from our theology we not only emasculate, we dissolve it.
                  Impressions and Comments
                  15
                  He said if that were the case, a government could emasculate any statutory body that caused it displeasure.
                  The Guardian
                  16
                  Attempts at ease emasculate my verse.
                  The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace
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                  Translations for emasculate
                  Portuguese
                  caparcastrar
                  Emasculate through the time