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Emasculate
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate slave." Hammond.