0 to reduce the effectiveness of something:
They were accused of trying to emasculate the report's recommendations.
But another man in his forties, whose in-laws are rich, finds it hard to accept gifts from them: "I feel emasculated in that old-fashioned role of provider.”
I think that may be a step forward, to have people other than women project their desire onto you without feeling it emasculates you.
Last night, Trude assisted in her first castration since emasculating a guinea pig back in Bristol: this time it was a camel.
In the diurnal cross-pollination treatment, buds were emasculated before anthesis and rebagged and pollinated at 06h00- 06h30 the following morning.
With their chiefs emasculated and #!
The exaltation of the heroic and the manly may also have revealed the fragility of masculinity in this period, not least in the intensely problematic status of the emasculated.
Where the paternal authority is elided due to emasculated patriarchs (the dead or removed paternal figure), the fraternity will have its day, but the results are mixed, at best.
You are going to have truncated, emasculated tribunals.
At the time, some of the major stress areas which were well run and providing all-embracing services were quite brutally emasculated.
There is no reason why the functions of that organisation should be emasculated.
However, what we know from government intentions is that they are to be emasculated and returned to local education authority control.
