emasculated

Meaning of emasculated

adjective
  1. (of a man) deprived of his male role or identity.
    insecure, emasculated men
    I felt emasculated, reduced to a whimpering boy in front of my kids
  2. made weaker or less effective.
    an emasculated organization that is merely a shadow of its former self
verb, past tense
  1. deprive (a man) of his male role or identity.
    in his mind, her success emasculated him
  2. 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’.

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Hyphenation of emasculated

emas-cu-lated

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • emasculated is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

emasculated synonyms

Meaning cut:

cut, gelded

Meaning make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength:

weaken

Meaning make (someone) very weak and infirm:

debilitate

Meaning make weak or feeble:

enfeeble

Meaning make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality:

enervate

Meaning make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by adding water or another solvent to it:

dilute

Meaning (of wind, water, or other natural agents) gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land):

erode

Meaning erode the base or foundation of (a rock formation):

undermine

Meaning make (a person or area) poor:

impoverish

Meaning cause severe and disabling damage to; deprive of the ability to function normally:

cripple

emasculated antonyms

Meaning make or become stronger:

strengthen

Words that rhyme with emasculated

ated, solvaated, abated, acerbated, aerobated, approbated, barbated, bated, bilobated, cohobated, combated, conglobated, debated, delibated, elumbated, exacerbated, extubated, globated, incubated, interdebated, intubated, libated, lobated, masturbated, nimbated, outdebated, overdebated, palmilobated, perturbated, precombated, probated, quinquelobated, rebated, reprobated, surbated, titubated, trilobated, unabated, unbated, uncombated, unconglobated, undebated, unexacerbated, unincubated, unprobated, unrebated, unreprobated, abdicated, abjudicated, adjudicated

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