emasculate

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - verb

1. deprive of strength or vigor (Freq. 1)
- The Senate emasculated the law
• Syn:
castrate
• Derivationally related forms:
emasculation
• Hypernyms:
weaken
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. remove the testicles of a male animal
• Syn:
castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
• Derivationally related forms:
castration (for: castrate), castrate (for: castrate), emasculation
• Hypernyms:
sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize,
desexualise, fix
• Hyponyms:
caponize, caponise, geld, cut
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody

II - adjective

having unsuitable feminine qualities
• Syn:
effeminate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy
• Similar to:
unmanly, unmanful, unmanlike
• Derivationally related forms:
sissiness (for: sissy), effeminateness (for: effeminate)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  effeminate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise