EM'ASCULATE, verb transitive [Low Latin emasculo, from e and masculus, a male. See Male.] 1. To castrate; to deprive a male of certain parts which characterize the sex; to geld; to deprive of virility. 2. To deprive of masculine strength or vigor; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Women emasculate a monarch's reign. To emasculate the spirits. EM'ASCULATE, adjective Unmanned; deprived of vigor.
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