Definition of "unmans" [unmans]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unman. (verb)

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• "  One who wants can give and give and give — yet we seek that one soft word, one telling glance, from the one who withholds or unmans us from our strapping selfhood, whose neglect spurs such ranges of self-hatred or love."
• "Because for the first time since earliest childhood, pain and fear burned together within me, and I felt what common men feel that so unmans them on the battlefield, that makes them fodder for a Mueller's hungry sword."
• "So I sat down, and put myself right with a brandy; mention of Bismarck always unmans me, but the fact was I was curious, not least about the delectable Mamselle Caprice."