emasculation

See also: émasculation

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

emasculation (countable and uncountable, plural emasculations)

(medicine) The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).
The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.
The authoritarian regime oversaw the total emasculation of the country's judiciary.

Hypernyms

(total removal of male genitalia): castration

Derived terms

auto-emasculation

Related terms

emasculate

Translations

castration

Bulgarian: скопяване (skopjavane), кастриране (bg) n (kastrirane)
French: émasculation (fr) f
German: Entmannung (de) f
Serbo-Croatian: kastriranje n
Spanish: emasculación f

deprived of vigor

Bulgarian: обезсилване (bg) n (obezsilvane)
Spanish: acabado (es) m

See also

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