| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To castrate, eviscerate, geld or spay.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb emasculate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (emasculate) | 1. Deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law".[Wordnet]. 2. Remove the testicles of a male animal.[Wordnet]. 3. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.[Websters]. 4. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: emasculating, emasculated, emasculates, emasculator, emasculators, emasculatingly and emasculatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EMASCULATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EMASCULATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Castrating; felding; depriving of vigor.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of emasculate. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
