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

"You emasculate little boys and who's going to don the next police uniform?" the man had asked.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2023

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

But it would be strange, indeed, if a few apt words could not further emasculate the mild, hypothetical language in which his colleague, Bingham, had seen fit to clothe that paper.

From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by DeWitt, David Miller