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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unman

Unman \Un*man"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + man.]

  1. To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like. [R.]
    --South.

  2. To emasculate; to deprive of virility.

  3. To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.

    Let's not unman each other.
    --Byron.

  4. To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unman

1590s, "to deprive of the attributes of a human being," from un- (2) + verbal derivative of man (n.). Meaning "to deprive of manly courage" is attested from c.1600; that of "to emasculate" is from 1680s.

Wiktionary
unman

vb. 1 (context archaic English) To castrate; to remove one's manhood. 2 To sap the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.

WordNet
unman
  1. v. cause to lose one's nerve; "an unmanning experience"

  2. [also: unmanning, unmanned]

Usage examples of "unman".

Then they could no longer refrain themselves, but ran down from the Speech-Hill and the slope about it with great and fierce cries, and clomb the wall where it was unmanned, helping each other with hand and back, both stark warriors, and old men and lads and women: and thus they gat them into the garth and fell upon the lessening band of the Romans, who now began to give way hither and thither about the garth, as they best might.

To offset this handicap, Gordian and Nimec had shipped Ricci another of their little toys, a SkyManta unmanned air recon vehicle that looked.

Chakotay took a breath to order the tractor beams on, but before anything came between his lips, Kes suddenly charged to the unmanned helm and dropped into the seat.

They passed over the wire at less than a hundred and fifty feet, then the racecourse-like stretch of open ground, then the lower, unmanned fence on the Finnish side, and a narrower space clear of trees, then the forest that engulfed both sides of the border at that point.

She now lay damaged, unmanned, stranded on a bar near the chain, not more than a pasang away.

They cowered, or fled, or wept where they stood, unmanned by their terror of treacherous black sorcery, and the rampaging conflagrations that had unraveled their stern strength and immolated brave officers and companions.

For this underground installation was a small, unmanned storage depot containing not more than 1,800 large cylinders of a particularly nasty psychotomimetic gas, with minimal laboratory facilities attached.

Six smaller white dots corresponded to the positions of the unmanned probes, arrayed in a hexagonal formation between the pulsar and the general direction of Mestiko.

It was an unmanned station but its doors were blown open and odd-looking creatures ran through it, ransacking it, in fact, searching for weapons.

With a curse he leaped off the wagon after Narm, leaving it unmanned and unsteered in the tumult.

In addition to the Furies Point, they monitored forty unmanned listening posts, most along the Klingon border.

Its importance would be improved still further if it operated in tandem with a Mars polar orbiter which would geochemically map the planet, or with an unmanned Martian aircraft which would photograph the surface from very low altitudes.

I will not dwell on the next few minutes, for no one likes to acknowledge that he has been unmanned even for a space.

The unmanned iceberg would run aground or drift away in the vagrant tropical currents to its quick destruction somewhere in the warm midocean waters, far from the anchors on the continental slope that kept it moving on course.

By the time Plautus arrived several minutes later, we were both rolling helpless on the floor, and his face unmanned us even further.