Definition of emasculated
: deprived of or lacking virility, strength, or vigor
He was a boy split in allegiance between a snobbish, devouring mother and an emasculated father.— Betty Harper Fussell Clooney languished as one of the emasculated boy-toys on "Sisters" for two years.— Rick Marin The old Russian matriarchy survives in a society where strong, self-sacrificing, self-sufficient women dominate passive, emasculated husbands. — The Wilson Quarterly
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The first known use of emasculated was in 1670
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