- emasculate⇄adj. deprived of force or vigor; weakened; effeminate.
Ex. ... contemptuous of the fallacious notion that public service broadcasting need be square or emasculate (New Statesman). - emasculate⇄emasculate, verb, -lated,-lating,adjective.
- emasculate⇄v.t. 1. to remove the male reproductive glands of; castrate.
2. (Figurative.) to destroy the force of; weaken.
Ex. The editor emasculated the speech by cutting out its strongest passages. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court, claimin