OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 28747

emasculate

/ɪˈmask.jʊlˌeɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
debilitar • emascular • feminizar
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
A few weeks later he came to the conclusion that his mother was emasculating him. He claimed that her grip was so strong on him that he was resentful. Not only was she emasculating…
The Agadic tradition has preserved another element of the Noah-myth. The wicked black son Ham (Châm), emasculates his father [...]. The emasculation of the Sun, when the Sun is mal…