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emasculateverb to deprive of courage or confidencebeing eliminated early in one's very first tennis tournament can be an emasculating experience demoralize, paralyze, undo, unman, unnerve, unstring debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, neuter, weakenprostrate, sap, soften, tire, wastefrighten, intimidate, psych (out), scare, terrify, terrorizedaunt, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispiritcraze, derange, madden, unbalance, unhingediscompose, disquiet, disturb, faze, perturb, unsettle, upset, weird out nerve fortify, strengthenembolden, encourage, hearten unnerve, enervate, unman, emasculate mean to deprive of strength or vigor and the capacity for effective action.unnerve implies marked often temporary loss of courage, self-control, or power to act.unnerved by the near collision enervate suggests a gradual physical or moral weakening (as through luxury or indolence) until one is too feeble to make an effort.a nation's youth enervated by affluence and leisure unman implies a loss of manly vigor, fortitude, or spirit.a soldier unmanned by the terrors of battle emasculate stresses a depriving of characteristic force by removing something essential.an amendment that emasculates existing safeguards in 1607 |