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• v  deprive of strength or vigor
  The Senate emasculated the law
• v  remove the testicles of a male animal
• s  having unsuitable feminine qualities

• Putin has worked hard to emasculate the Duma, press and opposition, but in a sense this makes him more vulnerable because his system is so rigid that only something like the Rose .
• English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate whatever finesse there may have been in the original.
• This divide threatens to emasculate a United Nations that failed to channel a diplomatic settlement or brand the war as legitimate.

• castrate
• demasculinize
• demasculinise
• effeminate
• epicene
• cissy
• sissified
• sissyish
• sissy

News & Articles

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• Ryan Gosling Emasculated Himself In Only God Forgives
  Ryan Gosling’s latest, Only God Forgives, is a disturbing crime thriller featuring an abusive relationship between a mother, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, and her crime boss son Julian, played by Ryan Gosling. But a lot of the nasty thrown Gosling’s way by Thomas wasn’t in the original script. Gosling himself wrote many of the... Read more » Ryan Gosling Emasculated Himself In Only God ...
  July 25, 2013 - The Inquisitr

Quotes

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• Jim Norton in Atlantic City Weekly
  There's some really great people in terrestrial [radio], but it's just not fun any more,says Norton. "It's not a fun medium anymore, because they emasculate you on things that have nothing to do with the FCC, but are special interest group...
• John McCain in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said it would "emasculate this surge."
• Michelle Obama in Newsday
  Well, I can do that,Michelle Obama says in an interview for the September issue of Essence magazine. "It would not emasculate me." "Because I am who I am."