Emasculate

[ɪ'mæskjʊleɪt] or [ɪ'mæskjʊlɪt]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) remove the testicles of a male animal.

(verb.) deprive of strength or vigor; 'The Senate emasculated the law'.

編輯:沃伦--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

(v. t.) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

(a.) Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Castrate, geld, glib, deprive of virility.[2]. Weaken, debilitate, unman, effeminate, emolliate, make effeminate.

整理:米歇尔

解釋/意思:

v.t. to deprive of the properties of a male: to castrate: to deprive of masculine vigour: to render effeminate.—ns. Emasculā′tion; Emas′culātor.—adj. Emas′culātory.

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