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adjective

Definition of emasculatednext
as in castrated

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verb

past tense of emasculate
as in paralyzed
to deprive of courage or confidence being eliminated early in one's very first tennis tournament can be an emasculating experience

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Recent Examples of emasculated
Adjective
By contrast, Gercke’s emasculated George speaks in the monotonous style of a man worn down by life. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026 Squeaky voices were comic, or emasculated. — Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026 Frank feels emasculated by everyone and everything. — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025 Noah is a debt-addled, nerdy middle-aged who feels totally emasculated by his inability to get a project off the ground. — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025 Blake is not an emasculated wimp; his confidence is complete, his suavity bordering on the toxic. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
Verb
No matter what agenda the president espoused—the economic pragmatism of Rafsanjani, the liberal aspirations of Mohammad Khatami, the populist provocations of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the nuclear diplomacy of Hassan Rouhani—Khamenei emasculated him. — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2026 Jordan continues yapping about being emasculated and being less of a man for staying with his wife. — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emasculated
  1. altered
  2. paralyzed
  3. neutered
  4. frightened
  5. terrified
  6. intimidated
  7. scared
Adjective
  • With a catheter inserted into a vein, intravenous tubing fitted and a syringe pump loaded and primed, the subject waits as the bed retracts until his brain is centered within the great coils of an MRI machine calibrated to map altered brain states.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 16 July 2026
  • Sixty years later Gallimard reissued it under the altered title of La maison d’Élisabeth.
    — André Aciman, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
Definition of altered
Verb
  • Lindsay Clancy, who was paralyzed by the injuries from her suicide attempt, was charged with three counts of murder and strangulation in her children’s deaths.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • In fact, if the knife had landed a centimeter to the left, she would have been paralyzed.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
Definition of paralyzed
Adjective
  • All adoptable pets are spayed, neutered and up to date on vaccines and tests.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • This reader hopes that will be a rebuttal to all the dubious America 250 content flooding orgs beholden to the neutered NEA.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
Definition of neutered
Verb
  • In those moments, what frightened her most was not her own safety but the knowledge that her husband was up there somewhere, flying in the same sky swarming with fighter planes dropping their bombs on Tehran.
    — Mahsa Alimardani, Time, 6 July 2026
  • At the time of writing, as the Marine Traffic map shows, tanker traffic is barely moving through the Strait, and many ships, unable to obtain insurance or with their owners frightened at the level of risk involved, are refusing to advance.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of frightened
Verb
  • While some car companies have lobbied the government, terrified, asking to build protective walls to fend off cheap Chinese competition, others have looked at the problem from a different angle, trying to meet the moment.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
  • Sebastian Krautz went viral on NBC10 Boston this week after admitting he was initially terrified to travel to the United States because of news about crime and safety.
    — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 4 July 2026
Definition of terrified
Verb
  • Don’t be intimidated by the random Amazon shoe brands—most of the time, the quality and price is there.
    — Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 12 July 2026
  • McDonald, a former lobster boat captain, was not intimidated.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
Definition of intimidated
Verb
  • But coyotes—anxious, clumsy, and scared to try new things—lagged far behind their mesopredator cousins.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • Running into the real Santosh again amid that backdrop, Juyal asked him if the danger scared him.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 July 2026
Definition of scared

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