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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 emasculated
Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Noah is a debt-addled, nerdy middle-aged who feels totally emasculated by his inability to get a project off the ground.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
Blake is not an emasculated wimp; his confidence is complete, his suavity bordering on the toxic.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Adjective
Frank feels emasculated by everyone and everything.
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Jordan continues yapping about being emasculated and being less of a man for staying with his wife.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for emasculated
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Hawking’s work on the physics of black holes helped reshape the scientific understanding of the universe, even after being diagnosed with a motor neuron disease also known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, early in life that gradually paralyzed him.—
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Economists have attributed this to high uncertainty (in part due to massive shifts in trade and immigration policy) that has paralyzed much business investment.—
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Kennedy hit back at Vance, posting an altered photo of the vice president, which has become a meme across social media.—
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Vaccine supply and availability may change The altered vaccine recommendations could reduce demand for certain vaccines, which in turn might prompt some doctors’ offices to order fewer doses.—
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And my father—lovable but imposing, a strapping six feet three inches tall with a thick, bristly mustache and a rumbling Sergeant Schultz accent that frightened my friends half to death—loved to tell stories.—
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Fortune had reported in its investigation that people within the agency were frightened of examining Boring Company after two staffers who worked on the case had been disciplined.—
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Hodges managed to hang on to his baton but then found himself on all fours, surrounded by the mob, terrified that he would soon be torn apart.—
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By 2025, she was terrified that her teenage daughters would be killed by a driver on their walk home from school.—
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But at their first practice sessions with such elite teams, the siblings were intimidated by being on the same ice as the champion couples and instinctively stuck by the boards.—
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The Arizona senator said at the time he would not be intimidated by the administration.—
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What really scared me was telling my audience.—
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That caption scared me for a minute.—
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“Emasculated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emasculated. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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