Emasculate vs Debilitate - What's the difference?
emasculate | debilitate |
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
* V. Knox
To make feeble; to weaken.
As verbs the difference between emasculate and debilitate
is that emasculate is to deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld while debilitate is to make feeble; to weaken.As an adjective emasculate
is deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.emasculate
English
Verb
(emasculat)- Luxury had not emasculated their minds.
debilitate
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Verb
- The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis.