verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Barry worried that working for a woman would emasculate him in his girlfriend's eyes.
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The Clean Air Act has been emasculated by tobacco industry pressure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Enhancing that contempt is the effort of feminists to emasculate the political order itself.
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Take the orchestra out of the pit, and unless you emasculate their contribution, the problem is compounded.
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The gallae may have emasculated themselves or the elders may have done it for them.
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The means used to emasculate local government have been varied.
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What he did wish was to emasculate his opponents, and then to pretend they were coming together as equals.