e·mas·cu·late

(ĭ-măs′kyə-lāt′)

tr.v. e·mas·cu·lat·ed, e·mas·cu·lat·ing, e·mas·cu·lates

1. To castrate.

2. To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.

adj. (-lĭt)

Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor.

[Latin ēmasculāre, ēmasculāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + masculus, male, diminutive of mās, male, man.]

e·mas′cu·la′tion n.

e·mas′cu·la′tive, e·mas′cu·la·to′ry (-lə-tôr′ē) adj.

e·mas′cu·la′tor n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	emasculation - loss of power and masculinity
	2.	emasculation - neutering a male animal by removing the testicles castration altering, neutering, fixing - the sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering"

Translations

ευνουχισμός

émasculation

castrazione evirazione

emasculation

(= weakening) → Entkräftung f, → Schwächung f

(lit) → Entmannung f, → Kastration f

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emasculation

[ɪˈmæskjʊˌleɪʃən] n → indebolimento

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

e·mas·cu·la·tion

n. emasculación; castración; mutilación.

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In addition, this mutant character could also be used in research as a marker, in crosses without emasculation, because the phenotype can be identified before plant flowering.

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Being able to fire people is important for two reasons: 1) to permit you to hire the people you want and to get rid of those you don't want, and 2) to make it possible for you to attract the kind of risk-takers who are repelled by the safe civil service and the political emasculation it entails.

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THE Igbo Youth Forum, on Wednesday, warned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to stop its emasculation game and release the Chairman of Innoson Motors, Mr Innocent Chukwuma, who was arrested and being investigated by the Capital and Insurance Fraud Unit of the commission's Lagos office.

Innoson Motor CEO: Igbo youths warn EFCC to stop emasculation game

Hence the cynical marketing of her bust-up with husband Peter Andre who, it's now apparent, only suffered her routine emasculation because he genuinely loves his kids.

Jord's still one empty woman

In defence, he had adopted a placid, somewhat bourgeois cynicism; he also smouldered with the simple fury of having had his balls cut off and in defiance of his emasculation paced about the place with the slow steps of a tiger: it's a threatening ability in nature to look like you can put down great weight gently.

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It's amazing what a bit of emasculation can do to the male psyche.

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Albion have gathered ten points from four games while Blues have taken a full 12 from four since their emasculation by Fulham.

Ex-Villa man Charles steps in to shore up Blues' battered back four

Labor-intensive hand emasculation and other less suitable means for producing specific hybrids have severely hindered the study of physiological processes in sorghum.

Registration of Cytoplasmic-Genetic Male-Sterile Sorghum Maturity and Height Parental Lines

Commenting on the increased urge by youths in the state to leave for greener pastures, Edo State chairman of the PDP, Dan Orbih, said the state has 'witnessed unprecedented hardship and financial emasculation within the last nine successive years of the APC government in the state.

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I'm sorry but it looked all wrong, a symbol of the corporatisation and emasculation of football.

LAST week, I saw a clutch