Definition of "emasculated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of emasculate. (verb)

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• "Grigoriadis' choice of the word emasculated rubs me the wrong way up one side and down the other, for reasons I'm going to assume I've made evident in no fewer than a nonillion posts about defining strength, power, etc. in contradistinction to the feminine."
• "Hank’s irritability, his reaction to my using the word emasculated … Things were beginning to make a lot more sense."
• "“Commons will be 'emasculated' by expenses proposals, says Philip Mawer: The House of Commons risks being "emasculated" by the Government's proposed clean-up following the expenses scandal, the former parliamentary standards watchdog has warned”"