Meaning of 'emasculate' in French is: émasculer

emasculate: émasculer

Verb:

émasculer, castrer, affaiblir, déchets, amortir, débiliter, modifier.

Adjective:

impuissant, émasculer, castré, neutre.

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Adjective(1) having unsuitable feminine qualities
Verb(1) deprive of strength or vigor(2) remove the testicles of a male animal(3) weaken(4) deprive of force

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(1) our winner-take-all elections emasculate fringe parties(2) As Montrose and others develop, to entirely suppress their power or emasculate them would prevent her from having effective use of that power.(3) There almost seems to be a resigned, a tacit acceptance, to try just to give Sharon a chance and see whether he can actually emasculate the militants in his policy.(4) Scalia's interpretation is implausible and would effectively emasculate the Amendment.(5) It is even rumoured that the G8 nations, when they gather at Gleneagles Hotel this summer, intend to cut the UN down to size, perhaps even to emasculate it completely.(6) Lord Templeman pointed out that this interpretation would not give effect to the manifest intention of the Act but would emasculate it.(7) It would emasculate the trial process, and undermine public confidence in the administration of criminal justice, if a standard of perfection were imposed that was incapable of attainment in practice.(8) McKibbin is right, however, to point out that massive Parliamentary majorities emasculate political parties and their ideologies.(9) Byrd's fear is that such an action would deny Democrats any say in the selection of federal judges in much the same way the Enabling Act empowered Hitler's Nazi Party to emasculate its opponents in Germany's legislature.(10) Until we politically and socially emasculate it, we will continue to be shackled by a fantasy of individualism and a Hobbesian worldview that can no longer be ameliorated by an endless frontier or global economic dominance.(11) The British Government would like to emasculate the media and particularly the BBC for asking the pertinent questions and forming the inevitable conclusions.(12) For a while, it looks like the perfect match, until he becomes emasculated by her drive.(13) Men had been undermined and emasculated to such an extent in a woman-dominated world that they would soon be little more than u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510sperm donorsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb, the article claimed.(14) It is the fact that even sooner, midterm congressional elections can have the effect of emasculating their legislative programs.(15) Is it because he feels emasculated by the sweet pink colour of his collar?(16) The double bind of colonialism required that he go to London in order to become a man - to make enough money to marry his sweetheart - yet London has emasculated him and made him inarticulate.