Usually means: Reducing or stripping away masculinity.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. emasculating: Merriam-Webster
  2. emasculating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. emasculating: Vocabulary.com
  4. emasculating: Wordnik
  5. emasculating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. emasculating: Wiktionary
  7. Emasculating, emasculating: Dictionary.com
  8. Emasculating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Emasculating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Emasculating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. emasculating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. emasculating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. emasculating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. emasculating: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. emasculating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emasculating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (emasculate)

verb:  (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
verb:  (specifically) To remove the entire male genitalia (the testicles, scrotum, and penis) of (a person or animal).
verb:  (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
verb:  (transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.
adjective:  Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.
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