emasculate

  1. Adjective.  Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

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