Sentence examples for emasculate for from inspiring English sources

I wish there was a comparable word like emasculate for what people do to a woman by chipping away at her pride and comfort in being and enjoying female qualities.

Furthermore, and as Game of Thrones' Kit Harington so painfully failed to work out recently, there are no losers when male stars self-emasculate for comedy purposes.

He was driven to a remote spot, stripped, then tarred and feathered and warned he would be "emasculated" for a second offense.

In fact, I struggle to think of something more emasculating for Batman than that – and that's before you consider that Catwoman apparently does it for him with a big, phallic rocket.

I thought it must feel emasculating for him because his little sister had gone to combat and he had not.

I guess chewing on Barbie-pink and Shrek-green dinosaur-shaped candy spiked with synthetic vitamins was kind of emasculating for the fellas these days, so the vacuum was filled by gummy vitamins, made "just for men"!

The immigrants, mostly men from southern China, laid track for half the massive railroad, along with several other railroads in the West, but were ridiculed and emasculated for their work.

Consider, instead, the reality of councils, alongside an emasculated Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) – the body responsible for flood defences and, crucially, food security – shouldering the burden of massive budget cuts at a time of rising challenges induced by climate change.

I mean, they have emasculated journalism for one thing.

They ignore martial law, which stopped Solidarity in its tracks and emasculated it for most of the 1980s.

In the seventies, Lowell, in his great poem "Ulysses and Circe," chose a baffled and emasculated Ulysses for his self-portrait.