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emasculation

noun

Etymology

From emasculate + -ion.

  1. borrowed from ēmasculātus
  2. formed as emasculation — “emasculate + -ion”

Definitions

  1. The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).

  2. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived

    The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.

  3. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.

    • The authoritarian regime oversaw the total emasculation of the country's judiciary.

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Derived

auto-emasculation

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for emasculation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA