emasculate:

To castrate .
Synonyms: castrate ; fix; geld; make sterile ; neuter; spay; sterilize; unman; vasectomize.
Etymology: From Latin emasculare, meaning to castrate , from e, meaning out , and masculus, the diminutive of mas, meaning male.

2. To deprive a male person or animal of his virility ; to deprive of masculine vigor; to make effeminate .

3. Figuratively, to censor or deprive something such as language, law, literary composition, film, etc. of its strength, vigor, or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate .

See Also: cockquean, cotquean, evirate

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