emasculate

That dynamic was taboo for generations of Americans who feared it might emasculate men and ruin couples’ romantic lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025

It's childish and weird to act like even looking at a tampon box will emasculate you.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2024

The British attempted to correct the problem by using another lubricant, but Indian troops remained suspicious and some began to believe the British were intentionally using lubricants made of offensive materials to emasculate the sepoys.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Or they came from players, who used the barbs as a way to emasculate or demean the opponents across from them.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2018

Castrate, kas′trāt, v.t. to deprive of the power of generation, to remove the testicles, geld, emasculate: to take from or render imperfect.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

“One guy presents himself as a kind of salt of the earth, a person you could hang out with, and then effectively emasculates the other by presenting them as the opposite.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2020

“I wanted a gender pronoun that was fun, and that immediately emasculates you—because you can’t roll your eyes and say ‘judy’ without being camp,” Mac told the Guardian during the “24-Decade” run.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2019

Eichhorst thinks he’s won the Lumen, allegedly the key to worldwide vampire eradication, but Palmer publicly emasculates him by yanking funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2015

Aftermath has caused a sensation in the United Kingdom because Cusk so devastatingly emasculates her husband.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2012

It emasculates the drama with its pervasive prettiness, its lazy felicitousness where it ought to be monstrous and terrifying, its reminiscences of Mendelssohn, Tchaikowsky and "Little Egypt."

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

It seems to me the premise is flawed—that men are either emasculated or overly macho.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

That's because, Chung explains, influencers and politicians are "tapping into people's grievances" and "trying to recapture some of the feelings of being emasculated by the younger generation".

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

Allow me to weigh in here, given that you mentioned it in your letter: It’s not your job to reduce your life savings or net worth so your husband doesn’t feel threatened or emasculated.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

Adrift and emasculated, Stan is less a patriarch than the defeated captain of a sinking ship, drowning in his futility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025

He somehow manages to flash a cool smile, even in his most emasculated state.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Poor Mr. Biswas, a man of meager prospects but irrepressible pride, must suffer through a series of demeaning dwellings to which his in-laws, the emasculating Tulsis, confine him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

So expressing gratitude, much less holding women in respect, is experienced as emasculating.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

These deficiencies made it hard for him to advance in his epic fights with Mr. Cuomo, who was engaged in a persistent project of emasculating him.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021

There is absolutely an alternate universe where Honey Boy—which borrows from the sometimes tender, mostly emasculating nickname that LaBeouf’s James calls his preteen son—isn’t an achievement on multiple fronts.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2019

Between 1867 and 1871, he pushed himself even harder, growing thousands of hawkweeds in another patch of garden, emasculating the flowers with the same forceps, and dusting pollen with the same paintbrush.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee