Sample sentences for EMASCULATE

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Definition

to take away strength or vigor of someone or something

or:

to make a male less masculine

or:

to remove the testicles of a male animal

The Senate emasculated the law.

He felt emasculated by his mother.
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.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

emasculated = with strength or vigor removed

Polished and sanguine, he looked emasculated and alien to the place where I had spent the last seven years of my life.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
The French Socialist and Communist literature was thus completely emasculated.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
But I've got to think up something or they'll emasculate the whole Department.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
In private he showed elation over the maddening events of the hostage crisis, clearly gleeful that America was emasculated before the world.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
The poets were pale emasculates, and Western men held them in contempt.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
It's chambers still contained the emasculated cartridges.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
This kind of emasculation was suffered, in one form or another, by all the men interned at Manzanar.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar

(editor's note: 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.)

I pictured my father finding the very act of shopping emasculating.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
Bud: He's going to state his position on that emasculation business that's stirred up such a mess in the state.
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire

He trusted us to do the right thing, and here we were secretly plotting to emasculate him.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
It's emasculating to be plucked up like a stray sock and carried about all the time.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Hundreds of sculptures had been emasculated.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
It was an emasculation, a sentence, and this—what he was feeling now—this torture was his punishment for breaking her ridiculous vase.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement

His face had grown wrinkled, yellow, and strangely emasculate.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
She got an emasculated carrot, a droopy leaf of celery, a soft tomato and a fresh sprig of parsley.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
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.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October

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