| VERB | change | emasculate, castrate | deprive of strength or vigor |
|---|---|---|---|
| body | emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise | remove the testicles of a male animal | |
| ADJECTIVE | all | emasculate, effeminate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy | having unsuitable feminine qualities |
| Sounds | ahmae'skyuwley.t; ahmae'skyuwliht | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| acquit ... writ: 187 rhymes with iht... | ||
| Meaning | Having unsuitable feminine qualities. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | effeminate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy | |
| Broader | unmanly, unmanful, unmanlike | not possessing qualities befitting a man |
| Spanish | afeminado, emasculado, marica, mariquita | |
| Meaning | deprive of strength or vigor. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The Senate emasculated the law" | |
| Synonym | castrate | |
| Broader | weaken | lessen the strength of |
| Spanish | castrar, debilitar, emascular, mutilar | |
| Catalan | emascular, mutilar | |
| Nouns | emasculation | loss of power and masculinity |
| Meaning | Remove the testicles of a male animal. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise | |
| Narrower | caponize, caponise | convert a cock into a capon |
| geld, cut | cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | |
| Broader | sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix | make infertile |
| Spanish | capar, castrar, emascular | |
| Catalan | castrar | |
| Nouns | emasculation | neutering a male animal by removing the testicles |
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