emasculation
1. loss of power and masculinity • Derivationally related forms: emasculate • Hypernyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, womanishness, unmanliness 2. neutering a male animal by removing the testicles • Syn: castration • Derivationally related forms: emasculate, castrate (for: castration) • Hypernyms: neutering, fixing, altering
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