Verb

• S: (v) emasculate, castrate (deprive of strength or vigor) "The Senate emasculated the law"
• S: (v) emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise (remove the testicles of a male animal)
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame

Adjective

• S: (adj) effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy (having unsuitable feminine qualities)
• similar to
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) effeminateness [Related to: effeminate] (the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)) "the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy"; "Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness"; "he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him"
• W: (n) sissiness [Related to: sissy] (the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)) "the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy"; "Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness"; "he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him"
• antonym