What is "emasculate"

Usage examples of "emasculate".

You would keep them, and keep your own dowry and by that, denigrate his titles, bastardize his honor and emasculate the man.

Even his narrative must be full of epigrams to avoid the one deadly sin of dulness, and his language must be decorous even at the price of being sometimes emasculated.

The transpiercing branch could not, however, account for the fact that the long-legged man had also been emasculated.

Before leaving that morning, Manos had gouged out their eyes, raggedly emasculated them, and left them to bleed to death.

It is full of wit, variety, and character, and is a veritable store book of the best spoken Russian of a period when the speech of the upper classes had not yet been disfigured and emasculated by schoolmastery and grammar.

Kresge had felt none of the terror that assaulted him now as he lined up the fat white envelopes of bills and pulled toward him his blue-backed plastic checkbook, soon to be emasculated.

In a climactic battle Goss Carcolo was captured by Kergan Banbeck and forced to emasculate himself with his own knife.

He came upon the world at the time when the grotesque sham into which Byronism had degenerated at the hands of Byron’s admirers was emasculating literature.

Blair had learned, too, how indiscretions that the world considered sins could be used corruptly to emasculate the ability of good men like Andy Jackson to act as nationalists.

For similar reasons, and animated by the same considerate patriotism, that same chief pontiff of yours-I still refer to him who was adjudged Rome’s best man without one dissentient voice-threw cold water on the proposal of the senate to build a circle of seats round the theatre, and in a very weighty speech warned them against allowing the luxurious manners of Greece to sap the Roman manliness, and persuaded them not to yield to the enervating and emasculating influence of foreign licentiousness.

They are emasculating our schools and bastardizing our nin-nyversities.

The damn bitch had emasculated him, finished the job that Elena and her bastard had started!

Then when this was objected to by the village men, he emasculated them in a gory bout of sadism.

His hatred for the man who emasculated him triggered a rage fueled by the memory of pain and mental agony.

They had to know instantly that they'd been emasculated, that any of mem who fought us would either die or be emasculated.