Sample Sentences for
emasculate
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emasculate as in:  non-enforcement emasculated it

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By not enforcing the law, they emasculated its intent.
emasculated = made weak or ineffectual
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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)
    Emasculated = with strength or vigor removed
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    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)
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    I pictured my father finding the very act of shopping emasculating.†  (source)
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    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)
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    He trusted us to do the right thing, and here we were secretly plotting to emasculate him.†  (source)
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    This kind of emasculation was suffered, in one form or another, by all the men interned at Manzanar.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    His ego already shattered by the damage to his career, he found this new assault emasculating.†  (source)
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    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)
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    The poets were pale emasculates, and Western men held them in contempt.†  (source)
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    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)
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    But I've got to think up something or they'll emasculate the whole Department.†  (source)
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    It was an emasculation, a sentence, and this—what he was feeling now—this torture was his punishment for breaking her ridiculous vase.†  (source)
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    It's emasculating to be plucked up like a stray sock and carried about all the time.†  (source)
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emasculate as in:  felt emasculated by his mother

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He felt emasculated by his mother.