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The Senate emasculated the law.
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He felt emasculated by his mother.
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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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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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Hundreds of sculptures had been emasculated.† (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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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)
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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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It was an emasculation, a sentence, and this—what he was feeling now—this torture was his punishment for breaking her ridiculous vase.† (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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I pictured my father finding the very act of shopping 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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Polished and sanguine, he looked emasculated and alien to the place where I had spent the last seven years of my life.† (source)
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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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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)
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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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