3 uses
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Definition
to take away strength or vigor of someone or something
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to make a male less masculine
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to remove the testicles of a male animal
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to make a male less masculine
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to remove the testicles of a male animal
- His face had grown wrinkled, yellow, and strangely emasculate.Book 3 — The Sensualists (50% in)
- With anger and repulsion he looked at Smerdyakov's emasculate, sickly face, with the little curls combed forward on his forehead.Book 5 — Pro And Contra (80% in)
- 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.Book 11 — Ivan (46% in)
There are no more uses of "emasculate" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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