vi to grow womanish or weak.
2. effeminate ·adj womanlike; womanly; tender;
in a good sense.
3. effeminate ·vt to make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
4. effeminate ·adj having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, ·etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.