| 词汇 | emasculate |
| 释义 | emasculate verb[ T ] uk /ɪˈmæs.kjə.leɪt/ us /ɪˈmæs.kjə.leɪt/ formal to reduce the effectiveness of something: 使衰弱；使效力减弱 They were accused of trying to emasculate the report's recommendations.他们被指责企图贬低报告的可取之处。 formal to make a man feel less male by taking away his power and confidence: 使缺少男子气；使（男人）柔弱 But another man in his forties, whose in-laws are rich, finds it hard to accept gifts from them: "I feel emasculated in that old-fashioned role of provider.” I think that may be a step forward, to have people other than women project their desire onto you without feeling it emasculates you. biology specialized to castrate(= remove the male sexual parts of) a man or male animal, or to remove the male parts of a plant: 阉割 Last night, Trude assisted in her first castration since emasculating a guinea pig back in Bristol: this time it was a camel. Becoming and making less strong abate abatement adulterant adulterate adulterated downtoner dull ease emasculation enervate enervating fade hedge melt relieve tone something down totter tottering turn to jellyidiom undimmed You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Discouraging and putting off Zoology: veterinary medicine Related wordemasculation Examples of emasculateemasculate In the diurnal cross-pollination treatment, buds were emasculated before anthesis and rebagged and pollinated at 06h00- 06h30 the following morning. The exaltation of the heroic and the manly may also have revealed the fragility of masculinity in this period, not least in the intensely problematic status of the emasculated. Where the paternal authority is elided due to emasculated patriarchs (the dead or removed paternal figure), the fraternity will have its day, but the results are mixed, at best. You are going to have truncated, emasculated tribunals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the time, some of the major stress areas which were well run and providing all-embracing services were quite brutally emasculated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no reason why the functions of that organisation should be emasculated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, what we know from government intentions is that they are to be emasculated and returned to local education authority control. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are war-minded, and to take away their armaments emasculates their nationalism and takes away their national machismo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are driven back on an emasculated policy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their powers of enforcement would be emasculated by the removal of the sanction of sequestration for contempt of court. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are emasculating the power of local authorities to provide houses to let. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would have thought that this emasculates half the reason for its existence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One takes the report, espouses it and then emasculates, diminishes and reduces it from what it was intended to do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To my mind, that would not be an emasculated statement and would therefore be a valid one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think how it has been completely emasculated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of emasculate These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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