Emasculate

Definitions: Emasculate

Emasculate

Adjective

1. Having unsuitable feminine qualities.

Verb

1. Deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law".

2. Remove the testicles of a male animal.

Date "emasculate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Synonyms: Emasculate

Synonyms: cissy (adj), effeminate (adj), epicene (adj), sissified (adj), sissy (adj), sissyish (adj), castrate (v), demasculinize (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cleanness	Disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate.
Impotence	Unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix.
	Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Emasculate

English words defined with "emasculate": Emasculating, Emasculatory, Evirate ♦ Unmasculate. (references)

"Emasculate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.92% of the time. "Emasculate" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	76.92%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (base form)	23.08%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

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Language		Translations for "emasculate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhburrnoj (unman), ul efektin (dilute), tredh (castrate, doctor, evirate, geld), shpëlaj (irrigate, rinse out), i tredhur (gelt), i shpëlarë (faded, homely, rinsed, vapid, wishy washy), i pangjyrë (achromatic, colorless, colourless, neutral), i pafuqishëm (feeble, infirm, peaky, weak), i dobësuar (diluted, effete, emaciated, exhausted, flagging, rundown, sapless), dobësoj (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emaciate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, use up, weaken). (various references)

Arabic		‏مخصي (castrate), ‏خصى (alter, castrate, geld, neuter), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references)

Bulgarian		скопявам (geld), скопен, кастриран, кастрирам (castrate, cut, evirate, fix, geld, gelt, unman), осакатявам (cripple, disable, dismember, hamstring, hock, hough, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, nip), окастрям (cut down, pare off, prune, truncate), обеднявам (become poor, grow poor, impoverish), женствен (effeminate, girlish, ladylike, pansy, sissy, soft, womanish), безсилен (forceless, impotent, infirm, nerveless). (various references)

Czech		vykleštit (evirate, unman), vykleštìný, oslabit (blunt, debilitate, disable, disenable, enfeeble, impair, weaken). (various references)

Danish		kastrere (alter, castrate, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references)

Dutch		castreren (alter, castrate, castration, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references)

Farsi		سست کردن(مج.), ازمردی انداختن (Unman), اخته کردن (Castrate, Castration, Geld, Mutilate, Neuter). (various references)

Finnish		kuohita (alter, castrate, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate), kastroida (alter, castrate, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references)

French		émasculer. (various references)

German		entmannen (castrate, to emasculate, unman). (various references)

Greek		ευνουχίζω (alter, castrate, geld, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate, unsex). (various references)

Hebrew		לעקר (castrate, mutilate, sterilize), לסרס (castrate, geld, neuter). (various references)

Hungarian		kasztrált (emasculated), herélt (cut, emasculated, eunuch, neuter). (various references)

Indonesian		mengebiri (castrate, geld). (various references)

Italian		evirare (evirate). (various references)

Manx		spoiyaghey (castrate), spoiy (castrate, castration, emasculation, geld, gelding, neuter, spay). (various references)

Norwegian		kastrere (geld). (various references)

Pig Latin		emasculateay

Portuguese		emascular (evirate), emasculado, efeminar, libertador (Liberia, life saver, rescuer, saver), castrar (caponize, castrate, eviscerate, gelding, spay). (various references)

Romanian		efeminat (girly-girly, mollycoddle, unmanly, womanish), efemina (feather bed, mollycoddle, womanize), trunchiat, trunchia (detruncate, garble, truncate), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), mutila (cripple, maim, mangle, mutilate), moleşi (enervate, soften, weaken), castrat, castra (alter, castrate, cut, geld). (various references)

Russian		выхолащивать (castrate, dilute, eviscerate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kastrirati (castrate), kastriran. (various references)

Spanish		estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, soil, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck), emascular, mutilar (cripple, deface, disable, garble, maim, mangle, mutilate), hacer castrado, castrar (alter, caponize, castrate, doctor, geld, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate), castrado (castrate, castrated, neuter). (various references)

Swedish		kastrera (alter, castrate, cut, evirate, geld, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate), förvekliga. (various references)

Thai		ทำให้อ่อนกำลัง. (various references)

Turkish		zayıflatmak (cripple, damp down, debilitate, emaciate, enervate, evirate, fade, impair, impoverish, reduce, slim, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken, wear away, wear down), iğdiş etmek (castrate, geld), hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, commute, deaden, de-escalate, ease, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, palliate, qualify, relieve, remit, soft pedal, subdue, water, weaken), hadım etmek (alter, castrate, cut, doctor, evirate, geld, unman), fakirleştirmek (beggar, impoverish, make poor, pauperize, reduce to beggary), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references)

Ukranian		холостити (caponize, castrate), каструвати (alter, caponize, castrate, neuter, spay, unman), кастрований (cut, gelded, neuter), вихолощувати (sterilize), вихолощений, ослабляти (abate, allay, attenuate, deaden, debilitate, depress, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, let down, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken), безсилий (forceless, impotent, nerveless, paralytic, powerless). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	castro, effeminati, effeminatis, effeminatorum, effeminatos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "emasculate": emasculated, emasculates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Emasculate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emmasculate, imasculate, immasculate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "emasculate" (pronounced uma"skyuwlut or uma"skyuwlā't)
6	-k y uw l u t	immaculate.
3	-l u t	amulet, anklet, appellate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, desolate, droplet, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, inarticulate, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot.
6	-k y uw l ā' t	ejaculate.
5	-y uw l ā' t	angulate.
4	-uw l ā' t	capitulate.
3	-l ā' t	accumulate, adulate, annihilate, articulate, assimilate, boilerplate, breastplate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, contemplate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, electroplate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, legislate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, nameplate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-m-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: maculates.
	-2 letters: aculeate, calumets, casemate, emulates, escalate, maculate, maleates, muscatel.
	-3 letters: acetals, almuces, amesace, amulets, calamus, calmest, calumet, camlets, caseate, celesta, eluates, emulate, euclase, lactams, lactase, maculae, maculas, macules, malates, maleate, maltase, muletas, sulcate, talcums, tamales.
	-4 letters: acetal, acetum, actual, acuate, acutes, alates, almuce, amulet, calesa, camels, camlet, castle, casual, caules, causal, clause, cleats, cuesta, culets, cutlas, eclats, elates, elects, eluate, elutes, lactam, lamest, macles, macula, macule, malate, measle, meatal, meatus, mescal, metals, mulcts, muleta, muscae, muscat, muscle, mustee, mutase, salute, samlet, select, stelae, talcum, tamale, tamals, teasel, ulamas, ulemas.
	-5 letters: aceta, acmes, acute, alate, alecs, almas, almes, alums, amuse, atlas, atmas, calms, camas, camel, cames, caste, cates, cauls, cause, cease, celts, cesta, cetes, clams, clast, cleat, clues, culet, culms, cults, cutes, easel, eclat, elate, elect, elute, emeus, laces, lamas, lames, lease, least, leets, luces, lutea, lutes, maces, macle, males, malts, mates, mauls, mauts, meals, meats, meets, melts, metal, metes, mulct, mules, musca, mutes, satem, sauce, sault, saute, scale, scuta, scute, setae, setal, slate, sleet, smalt, smelt, stale, steal, steam, steel, stela, stele, sumac, taces, taels, talas, talcs, tales, talus, tamal, tames, teals, teams, tease, teels, teems, telae, teles, tesla, tules, ulama, ulema.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-m-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: emasculated, emasculates.
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