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Emasculate

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

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Manner of action 3

Caponize 76% connected

To castrate, as a fowl.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Geld 76% connected

Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

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Broader term 4

Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Sterilize 76% connected

To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

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Unsex 76% connected

To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

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Weaken 76% connected

To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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Castration 74% connected

The act of castrating.

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Castration 74% connected

The act of castrating.

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Effeminateness 74% connected

The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.

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Effeminateness 74% connected

The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.

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Eunuch 74% connected

A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some…

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Eunuch 74% connected

A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some…

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Castrate 92% connected

To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

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Effeminate 92% connected

Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.

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Epicene 92% connected

Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate anim…

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