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Traditional English :: emasculate
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emasculatory.html - v. & adj. --v.tr.
1 deprive of force or vigour; make feeble or ineffective.
2 castrate. --adj. 1 deprived of force or vigour.
2 castrated.
3 effeminate. emasculation n. emasculator n. emasculatory adj. [L emasculatus past part. of emasculare (as E-, masculus dimin. of mas male)] |
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Traditional English :: emasculate
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emasculatory.html - v. & adj. --v.tr.
1 deprive of force or vigour; make feeble or ineffective.
2 castrate. --adj. 1 deprived of force or vigour.
2 castrated.
3 effeminate. emasculation n. emasculator n. emasculatory adj. [L emasculatus past part. of emasculare (as E-, masculus dimin. of mas male)] |
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Traditional English :: emasculate
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emasculatory.html - v. & adj. --v.tr.
1 deprive of force or vigour; make feeble or ineffective.
2 castrate. --adj. 1 deprived of force or vigour.
2 castrated.
3 effeminate. emasculation n. emasculator n. emasculatory adj. [L emasculatus past part. of emasculare (as E-, masculus dimin. of mas male)] |
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New English :: email
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emasculatory.html - (Science and Technology) see electronic |
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Traditional English :: emaciate
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emasculatory.html - v.tr. (esp. as emaciated adj.) make abnormally thin or feeble. emaciation n. [L emaciare emaciat- (as E-, macies leanness)] |
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Traditional English :: email
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emasculatory.html - n.
(also e-mail) = electronic mail. |
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