unman

There’s fear, but not the kind of terror that might unman me, might tempt me to hop the fence and run for home.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2015

The same impulse to unman a social or cultural threat gambols across Groucho’s exchanges with Eliot.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2014

But the very process that allows it to make these corrections—its palindromes—can also unman it.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2012

Sample unthoughts about her unman: "The noise he made when he swallowed; his smelly feet!"

From Time Magazine Archive

"Does the thought of facing the Stark boy unman you, Tyrion? Your brother Jaime would be eager to come to grips with him."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

"Wind. Trees rustling. A wolf. Which sound is it that unmans you so, Gared?"

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Sometimes feeling the spontaneous courage of a man, I seem to wish for the decisive minute; the next instant a message from my wife, sent by one of the children, quite unmans me.

From Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. by William Priest

But next to him—of course with a long interval—comes the fellow who is so afraid of a responsibility that the very thought of it unmans him.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one.

From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by John Charles Van Dyke

Tears choked his utterance; but stifling his emotion, he exclaimed, "Athenians! if ye would know what it is that thus unmans a soul capable of meeting death with calmness, behold, and judge for yourselves!"

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Francis Child

The Wall Street Journal’s Heather Somerville reports that a chronic shortage of explosives threatens the Pentagon’s agenda to replenish weapons stockpiles and arm troops with the unmanned systems that have come to define conflicts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Beneath the battle for aerial superiority, unmanned ground vehicles scurry back and forth delivering supplies, evacuating the wounded or, increasingly, leading the charge against the enemy.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Russian transport ministry later said unmanned boats had attacked the Liberian-flagged Aframax Rio oil tanker.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The objects include unexploded ordnance, drones and other unmanned vehicles found washed ashore or floating at sea, it said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

"Have the years so unmanned you that you tremble at the shadow of an unborn child?"

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

His final unmanning, complete with broken nose, is served up at Carly’s office by the now-empowered female trio.

From Time ● Apr. 24, 2014

In his new movie, Langella finds excellent employment for that unmanning stare.

From Time ● Aug. 16, 2012

As if sculpted from the earth, Tabor's voice resonates with ancient calm, both consoling and unmanning its listener.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2011

A new neighbor, Tim Valentine, confesses to another sort of problem: an initial enthusiasm followed immediately by unmanning apathy.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It is something like idleness and luxury unmanning us —the strings have gone slack and out of tune.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White