emasculate
verb [often passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they emasculate | |
| he / she / it emasculates | |
| past simple emasculated | |
| past participle emasculated | |
| -ing form emasculating |
- emasculate somebody/something
to make somebody/something less powerful or less effective 削弱；使无力；使失去效力 - emasculate somebody
to make a man feel that he has lost his male role or qualities 使（男人）柔弱；使无男子气 He felt emasculated by her dominance. 他觉得被她的统治削弱了。
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin emasculat- ‘castrated’, from the verb emasculare, from e- (variant of ex-, expressing a change of state) + masculus ‘male’.