as in to paralyze
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 emasculate
After a whole season of crying about being emasculated!
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
There are no good statistics documenting this problem but, according to the sociologist Sanjay Srivastava, in many parts of North India, higher-caste men rape lower-caste women to emasculate lower-caste men.
—Ira Trivedi, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2014
This is taking programs that people depend on to save lives and emasculating them.
—Selina Wang, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2025
On the downside, the show has some terrible notions about Jewish women that play into controlling and emasculating stereotypes.
—Nina Metz, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
There are no good statistics documenting this problem but, according to the sociologist Sanjay Srivastava, in many parts of North India, higher-caste men rape lower-caste women to emasculate lower-caste men.
—Ira Trivedi, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2014
This is taking programs that people depend on to save lives and emasculating them.
—Selina Wang, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2025
On the downside, the show has some terrible notions about Jewish women that play into controlling and emasculating stereotypes.
—Nina Metz, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emasculate
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Focusing Only On What’s Happening Now Uncertainty paralyzes innovation.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Planes, ambulances and even tractors would be paralyzed.—
Jerald Fritz,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Aug. 2025
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How to Build a Customer-Centric Supply Chain For smaller companies, this can all sound intimidating.—
Stephen Wunker,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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The judge said Peterson must stay at least 100 yards away from Pete and refrain from harassing, intimidating, or threatening her in any way until at least January 9, 2030.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
1 Aug. 2025
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Most give up halfway, frightened by the warnings of those below.—
Sudhir Gupta,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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While the notion might frighten fans who have Thursday nights perpetually blocked off on their calendars, shorter episodes could prove beneficial in giving the Critical Role founders a little bit of a break.—
Dana Reboe,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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These are the hallmarks of the Alien franchise, which have remained mostly consistent across the seven movies (plus two vacuous Alien vs. Predator crossovers) that have kept those terrifying Xenomorphs coming back to our screens every decade since the original premiered in 1979.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
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She too is terrified of facing her father, played by Cheon Ho-jin.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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But Levine, a social media savvy young millennial, knew the line between sharing and scaring.—
Alessandra Schade,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
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The Wall Street Journal reported that six years after the film was released, the United States Department of Agriculture selected the audio of the scene in question to scare off wolves from killing cattle and livestock on farms across America.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Emasculate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emasculate. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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