English Dictionary

EMASCULATE

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

IPA (US): 

 Dictionary entry overview: What does emasculate mean? 

EMASCULATE (adjective)
  The adjective EMASCULATE has 1 sense:

1. having unsuitable feminine qualitiesplay

  Familiarity information: EMASCULATE used as an adjective is very rare.


EMASCULATE (verb)
  The verb EMASCULATE has 2 senses:

1. deprive of strength or vigorplay

2. remove the testicles of a male animalplay

  Familiarity information: EMASCULATE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EMASCULATE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having unsuitable feminine qualities

Synonyms:

cissy; effeminate; emasculate; epicene; sissified; sissy; sissyish

Similar:

unmanful; unmanlike; unmanly (not possessing qualities befitting a man)


EMASCULATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they emasculate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it emasculates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: emasculated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: emasculated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: emasculating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of strength or vigor

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

castrate; emasculate

Context example:

The Senate emasculated the law

Hypernyms (to "emasculate" is one way to...):

weaken (lessen the strength of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

emasculation (loss of power and masculinity)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove the testicles of a male animal

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

castrate; demasculinise; demasculinize; emasculate

Hypernyms (to "emasculate" is one way to...):

desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex (make infertile)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "emasculate"):

caponise; caponize (convert a cock into a capon)

cut; geld (cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

emasculation (neutering a male animal by removing the testicles)


 Context examples 


I mean to tell you that it is you who are suffering from the emasculating ravages of that same microbe.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ." (English proverb)

"The more you mow the lawn, the faster the grass grows." (Albanian proverb)

"The deserter is the brother of the murderer." (Arabic proverb)

"He who sleeps cannot catch fish." (Corsican proverb)



ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:


© 2000-2024 AudioEnglish.org | AudioEnglish® is a Registered Trademark | Terms of use and privacy policy
Contact