emasculate
emas|cu|late /ɪm'æskjʊleɪt/ (emasculates emasculating emasculated)
1 [VERB] be V-ed, V n, V-ed
If someone or something is emasculated, they have been made weak and ineffective.
Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised...
The company tried to emasculate the unions...
Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
= neuter
● emasculation [N-UNCOUNT]
...the emasculation of fundamental freedoms.
2 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed
If a man is emasculated, he loses his male role, identity, or qualities.
Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.
1 [VERB] be V-ed, V n, V-ed
If someone or something is emasculated, they have been made weak and ineffective.
Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised...
The company tried to emasculate the unions...
Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
= neuter
● emasculation [N-UNCOUNT]
...the emasculation of fundamental freedoms.
2 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed
If a man is emasculated, he loses his male role, identity, or qualities.
Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.