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emasculate

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10 lettersPronunciation /ɪˈmask.jʊlˌeɪt/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted aaceelmstuStarts with EEnds with E0 clues
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  1. remove the testicles of a male animal

Word origin

From Medieval Latin ēmasculātus, perfect passive participle of ēmasculō (“to emasculate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from, apart”) + masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), further from mās (“a man, a male”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

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  • The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.

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