émasculer

== French == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin ēmasculāre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /e.mas.ky.le/ Homophones: émasculai, émasculé, émasculée, émasculées, émasculés, émasculez Rhymes: -e Hyphenation: é‧mas‧cu‧ler === Verb === émasculer (transitive) to emasculate (to deprive a male of the organs of reproduction) Synonyms: castrer, châtrer (transitive, figuratively, literary) to emasculate (to make weak, to deprive one of one's strength, to strip of one's original strength) Synonyms: abâtardir, amollir ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “émasculer”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse “émasculer” in Le Dictionnaire. “émasculer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 “émasculer” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.