0 past simple and past participle of emasculate
1 to reduce the effectiveness of something:
The falconet is indeed 'entoiled by means of a fair maiden' - and emasculated.
Unfortunately, the ethical proscriptions have been emasculated by financial pressures, by increasing commercialism of academic medicine, and by profiteering.
None the less the measure, however emasculated, became law.
The gendered and marital metaphor, on the one hand, sympathetically underscores the emasculated situation of a clerk.
For these three pollination treatments, buds were opened, emasculated and enclosed with paper bags just before anthesis.
Such rent-seeking activities emasculated prospects for growth in the domestic market as well as abroad.
He is emasculated; a small, utterly ordinary, and insignificant figure, he has no clear role to play in this realm.
However, without addressing the underlying distribution of power, judiciaries will likely remain emasculated.
