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Emasculate vs Debilitate - What's the difference?

emasculate | debilitate |

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

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
  • Verb

    (emasculat)
  • 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
  • Luxury had not emasculated their minds.

    debilitate

    English

    Verb

  • To make feeble; to weaken.
  • The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis.

    Synonyms

    * weaken * enfeeble * enervate

    See also

    * enervate