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emasculate 音标拼音: [əm'æskjulɪt] [əm'æskjul ,et] a. 柔弱的
vt. 阉割,使柔弱
a. 阉割了的,柔弱的 柔弱的阉割,使柔弱阉割了的,柔弱的 emasculate adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [ synonym: { effeminate}, { emasculate}, { epicene}, { cissy}, { sissified}, { sissyish}, { sissy}] v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; " The Senate emasculated the law" [ synonym: { emasculate}, { castrate}] 2: remove the testicles of a male animal [ synonym: { emasculate}, { castrate}, { demasculinize}, { demasculinise}] emasculate \ e* mas" cu* late\, a. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. " Emasculate slave." -- Hammond. [ 1913 Webster]
Emasculate \ E* mas" cu* late\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Emasculated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Emasculating}.] [ L. emasculare; e masculus male, masculine. See { Male} masculine.] 1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. [ 1913 Webster] Luxury had not emasculated their minds. -- V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster] 41 Moby Thesaurus words for " emasculate": alter, castrate, cripple, debilitate, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, devitalize, disable, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, enervate, etiolate, eunuchize, exhaust, fix, forceless, geld, hamstring, hobble, impotent, inadequate, incapacitate, ineffective, ineffectual, lame, maim, sissify, soften, spay, spineless, sterilize, unman, unnerve, unsex, unstring, wan, weak, wing, womanize
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