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