emasculate
verbEtymology
From Medieval Latin ēmasculātus, perfect passive participle of ēmasculō (“to emasculate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from, apart”) + masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), further from mās (“a man, a male”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
- borrowed from ēmasculātus
Definitions
To deprive of virile or procreative power
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Of a flower
Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.
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Deprived of virility or vigor
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.
The neighborhood
- neighboremasculated
- neighboremasculation
- neighboremasculative
- neighboremasculator
- neighboremasculatory
- neighboremasculatrix
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA