emasculate

Example Sentences

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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

I purchased, too, photographs of Oscar Wilde, scrutinizing them under the unctuous auspices of this same emasculate and blandiloquent mentor.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock