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Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent. (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996
emasculated = with strength or vigor removed

On a beach, they made a spectacle of themselves when Fred, feeling emasculated by the pity over his missing leg, flung away his crutches, hopped over to Louie, and tackled him.† (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Hundreds of sculptures had been emasculated.† (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

It was an emasculation, a sentence, and this—what he was feeling now—this torture was his punishment for breaking her ridiculous vase.† (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

Light in August (1932) features a character named Joe Christmas who suffers emasculation at the novel's end; while neither his behavior nor his particular wound is very obviously Christlike, his life and death have to do with the possibility of redemption.† (source)

I pictured my father finding the very act of shopping emasculating.† (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

He trusted us to do the right thing, and here we were secretly plotting to emasculate him.† (source) John Grogan, Marley & Me, 2005

Even a half-remembrance of this episode, along with myriad other humiliations, defeats, and emasculations, could stir him into flights of depravity that surprised himself—but only himself.† (source) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 1970

Saeed wanted to run but had nowhere to run to, and tried to hide his panic, but then the woman in the leather jacket removed her foot from the wall, and there was space for Saeed to pass, and so he squeezed through, brushing her body with his, and feeling emasculated as he did so, and when he was alone in his and Nadia's room he sat on the bed and his heart was racing and he wanted to shout and to huddle in a corner but of course he did neither.† (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

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This kind of emasculation was suffered, in one form or another, by all the men interned at Manzanar.† (source)

In private he showed elation over the maddening events of the hostage crisis, clearly gleeful that America was emasculated before the world.† (source)

He'd had enough lectures on naval history to know that submarines had twice nearly strangled England's maritime empire and had successfully emasculated the economy of Japan.† (source)

Polished and sanguine, he looked emasculated and alien to the place where I had spent the last seven years of my life.† (source)

It's emasculating to be plucked up like a stray sock and carried about all the time.† (source) Henry H. Neff, The Maelstrom, 2012

I want to get everyone I know and go find him and emasculate him …. but no matter how guilty I feel about what happened to me and Margie, I've made a sacred oath to get out of the past and into my foreverish long future.† (source)

The vivid and valuable passages—the ones which in general I refrained from throwing away—seemed to me later to be the ones having to do with my emasculations, my thwarted manhood and truncated passions.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

The poets were pale emasculates, and Western men held them in contempt.† (source) John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

It's chambers still contained the emasculated cartridges.† (source) Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man, 1953

His ego already shattered by the damage to his career, he found this new assault emasculating.† (source)

She got an emasculated carrot, a droopy leaf of celery, a soft tomato and a fresh sprig of parsley.† (source)

Bud: He's going to state his position on that emasculation business that's stirred up such a mess in the state.† (source)

St Cloud, would stoop to stand on a platform next to her father while he explains and excuses on tv this random emasculation of a young Nigra caught on a street after midnight.† (source)

But I've got to think up something or they'll emasculate the whole Department.† (source) Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925

The French Socialist and Communist literature was thus completely emasculated.† (source)

This so-called benefactor of mankind talked a fine game about purification and sanctification, but in fact he was bent upon the emasculation of life, wanted to let it bleed to death.† (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

Physically, she was of a pale, emasculate and unimportant structure, with no real mental force or depth, and was easily made to feel that this was an excellent field in which to distinguish herself and attract a little attention.† (source)

The traveller who stops at the best houses, so called, soon discovers this, for the publicans presume him to be a Sardanapalus, and if he resigned himself to their tender mercies he would soon be completely emasculated.† (source) Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

So far as Tom had gained any acquaintance with the Romans at Mr. Jacob's academy, his knowledge was strictly correct, but it went no farther than the fact that they were "in the New Testament"; and Mr. Stelling was not the man to enfeeble and emasculate his pupil's mind by simplifying and explaining, or to reduce the tonic effect of etymology by mixing it with smattering, extraneous information, such as is given to girls.† (source)

But so far as Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, North or South, does not rightly value the privilege and duty of voting, belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambition of our brighter minds,—so far as he, the South, or the Nation, does this,—we must unceasingly and firmly oppose them.† (source)

With anger and repulsion he looked at Smerdyakov's emasculate, sickly face, with the little curls combed forward on his forehead.† (source)

Here at a stroke of the pen was erected a government of millions of men,—and not ordinary men either, but black men emasculated by a peculiarly complete system of slavery, centuries old; and now, suddenly, violently, they come into a new birthright, at a time of war and passion, in the midst of the stricken and embittered population of their former masters.† (source)

His thin emasculate face seemed to have become so tiny; his hair was ruffled, and his crest of curls in front stood up in a thin tuft.† (source)

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