Usually means: Deprive a man of strength.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. emasculate: Merriam-Webster
  2. emasculate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emasculate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emasculate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emasculate: Vocabulary.com
  6. emasculate: Wordnik
  7. emasculate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emasculate: Wiktionary
  9. emasculate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emasculate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emasculate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. emasculate: Dictionary.com
  13. emasculate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Emasculate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Emasculate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. emasculate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. emasculate: Rhymezone
  18. Emasculate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. emasculate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. emasculate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. emasculate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. emasculate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. emasculate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. emasculate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. emasculate: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. emasculate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. emasculate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emasculate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
verb:  (specifically) To remove the entire male genitalia (the testicles, scrotum, and penis) of (a person or animal).
verb:  (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
verb:  (transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.
adjective:  Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.

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