emasculate
英 [iˈmæskjuleɪt]
美 [iˈmæskjuleɪt]
v. 削弱; 使无力; 使失去效力; 使(男人)柔弱; 使无男子气
过去分词：emasculated 现在分词：emasculating 第三人称单数：emasculates 过去式：emasculated
BNC.32775 / COCA.32219
牛津词典
verb
- 削弱；使无力；使失去效力
to make sb/sth less powerful or less effective - 使（男人）柔弱；使无男子气
to make a man feel that he has lost his male role or qualities
柯林斯词典
- VERB 削弱;使势力减弱;使无效
If someone or somethingis emasculated, they have been made weak and ineffective.- Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised...
左派持不同政见者已经遭到削弱和排挤。 - The company tried to emasculate the unions...
公司试图削弱工会的力量。 - Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
自日本战败后，日本军队遭到大幅削减。
- Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised...
- VERB 使缺乏男子气；使柔弱
If a manis emasculated, he loses his male role, identity, or qualities.- Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.
托什是出了名的天不怕地不怕，但是他明显被他的女朋友驯服帖了。
- Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.
英英释义
verb
- remove the testicles of a male animal
- deprive of strength or vigor
- The Senate emasculated the law
adj