emasculate
Meaning of emasculate
- deprive (a man) of his male role or identity.
in his mind, her success emasculated him
- make (someone or something) weaker or less effective.
the refusal to allow them to testify effectively emasculated the committee
early 17th century: from Latin emasculat- ‘castrated’, from the verb emasculare, from e- (variant of ex-, expressing a change of state) + masculus ‘male’.
Information about emasculate
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of emasculate is: emasculates.
- Languages in which emasculate is used:
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Hyphenation of emasculate
emas-cu-late
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- emasculate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
emasculate synonyms
Meaning effeminate:
effeminate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy
Meaning castrate:
Meaning make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength:
Meaning make (someone) very weak and infirm:
Meaning make weak or feeble:
Meaning make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality:
Meaning make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by adding water or another solvent to it:
Meaning (of wind, water, or other natural agents) gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land):
Meaning erode the base or foundation of (a rock formation):
Meaning make (a person or area) poor:
Meaning cause severe and disabling damage to; deprive of the ability to function normally:
emasculate antonyms
Meaning make or become stronger:
Translation of emasculate
- Italian: evitare, castrare, indebolire, effemminato
- German: kastrieren, verschneiden, entmannen, schwächen, entkräften, weibisch, effeminiert, verweichlicht, tuntig, tuntenhaft
- French: châtrer, castrer, émasculer, affaiblir
- Spanish: castrar, capar, emascular, debilitar, minar, mariquita, afeminado, amariconado, ahembrado, amadamado, maricón, amujerado, marica, amaricado, acaponado
Words that rhyme with emasculate
late, Kayexalate, Tornalate, alate, aminodimethylterephthalate, aminoisophthalate, aminophthalate, aminoterephthalate, amygdalate, aurothiomalate, balate, benzylphthalate, bialate, binoxalate, bioxalate, bisphthalate, bisterephthalate, bolmantalate, bromoisophthalate, bromoterephthalate, butylbenzylphthalate, butylisophthalate, butylmalate, butylorthophthalate, butylphthalate, butylterephthalate, carbonylbisphthalate, cardinalate, cephalate, chloroisophthalate, chlorophthalate, chloroterephthalate, chronadalate, columbotantalate, coumalate, cyanoterephthalate, cyclometalate, dealate, deescalate, desoxalate, diacetoxyterephthalate, diallylphthalate, dianilinoterephthalate, dibromoterephthalate, dibutoxyterephthalate, dichlorophthalate, dichloroterephthalate, didodecylphthalate, diethylphthalate, difluoroterephthalate