emasculate

1. V-T If someone or something is emasculated, they have been made weak and ineffective. 削弱; 使無效[表不滿]

Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalized. 左翼持不同政見者已遭削弱并被邊緣化。

The company tried to emasculate the unions. 該公司試圖削弱工會的力量。

Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated. 自日本戰(zhàn)敗后，其軍隊力量已是大勢已去。

2. emasculationN-UNCOUNT

...the emasculation of fundamental freedoms. ...對基本自由權(quán)利的削弱。

3. V-T If a man is emasculated, he loses his male role, identity, or qualities. 使無男子氣[usu passive] [表不滿]

No man here is emasculated by his high-achieving wife. 這里的男人并沒有被他們強勢的妻子削弱其男子氣概。