emasculate
Example Sentences
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"They want her not to feel human and to emasculate her boyfriends," he said.
From Fox News
In this way, the men "saved face" in public and avoided being stigmatised as "emasculated".
From BBC
“However, it could still be emasculated, depending on who gets put on it and whether it gets a competent staff and a budget and is able to do its work.”
From Washington Post
“But what this did is that it emasculated the government. It became simply an employment agency.”
From Los Angeles Times
She was the oxygen, through decades when such an arrangement might have been viewed as emasculating.
From Washington Post
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