transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmæskjʊleɪt ]
( emasculates, emasculating, emasculated)
1.
If someone or something is emasculated , they have been made weak and ineffective.
Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised...
The company tried to emasculate the unions...
Since Japan’s defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
= neuter
VERB : be V-ed , V n , V-ed [ disapproval ]
• emas‧cu‧la‧tion
...the emasculation of fundamental freedoms.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If a man is emasculated , he loses his male role, identity, or qualities.
Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed [ disapproval ]