emasculate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb deprive of strength or vigor
    castrate.
    • The Senate emasculated the law
  2. verb remove the testicles of a male animal
    demasculinise; demasculinize; castrate.
  3. adjective satellite having unsuitable feminine qualities
    cissy; sissyish; effeminate; sissy; epicene; sissified.

WordNet

E*mas"cu*late transitive verb
Etymology
L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine. See Male masculine.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Emasculated ; present participle & verbal noun Emasculating
Definitions
  1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
  2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
    Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.
E*mas"cu*late adjective
Definitions
  1. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate slave." Hammond.

Webster 1913