Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb emasculate

2 senses of emasculate

Sense 1
emasculate, castrate -- (deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law")
       => weaken -- (lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body")

Sense 2
emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise -- (remove the testicles of a male animal)
       => sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix -- (make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized")

Antonyms of adj emasculated

1 sense of emasculated

Sense 1
cut, emasculated, gelded -- ((of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut horse")

INDIRECT (VIA castrated) -> uncastrated -- (not castrated)

Similarity of adj emasculated

1 sense of emasculated

Sense 1
cut, emasculated, gelded -- ((of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut horse")
       => castrated (vs. uncastrated), unsexed -- (deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes)