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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
emasculate .
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Examples
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Beside the abusive spouse and the dancer who suffers a date rape, there's the powerful female executive (Janet Jackson) whose position apparently so emasculates her stockbroker husband that he's cruising other guys in Harlem alleys.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: For Colored Girls Marshall Fine 2010
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If the consequences of torture are as catastrophic as embarking upon the Iraq War on the basis of fabricated information, it emasculates the claims by torture's defenders that the practice saves lives.
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It makes men soft, even emasculates them, and the leisure lifestyle it buys is un-American.
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This premium, combined with welfare benefits whose rates are set nationally, emasculates local labor markets.
How Big Government Killed Britain's Regions Warwick Lightfoot 2011
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Beside the abusive spouse and the dancer who suffers a date rape, there's the powerful female executive (Janet Jackson) whose position apparently so emasculates her stockbroker husband that he's cruising other guys in Harlem alleys.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: For Colored Girls Marshall Fine 2010
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Such thinking goes all the way back to Plato, who warned in "The Republic" that music "emasculates instead of invigorating the mind, causing a relaxation of the intellectual faculties, and debasing the warrior into an effeminate slave, destitute of all nerve and energy of soul."
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It IS about the role of government, but not as a power that emasculates or dictates or destroys.
Richard Greene: Words We Can Believe In: The Hope-ful Power of LOFT 2009
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The rightwingers are brilliant at pushing a pumped up story whihc also emasculates the other side from responding to it honestly.
McCain: It's "Honorable" To Want To Lose The War In Iraq Out Of Political Ambition 2009
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His decision to be a centrist completely emasculates his claim of being the man who can bring change and hope for those who need it: the common people of the nation.
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Antiwar emasculates, and Obama had had to overcome the race question enough to jump through the electoral hoops.
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