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Liberate vs Emasculate - What's the difference?

liberate | emasculate |

In transitive terms the difference between liberate and emasculate

is that liberate is to free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage while emasculate is to deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

As an adjective emasculate is

deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

liberate

English

Verb

(liberat)
  • To free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage.
    • to liberate a slave or prisoner
    to liberate the mind from prejudice
    to liberate gases
  • (euphemistic) To steal or abscond with (something).
    • The neighbor's garden gnome is so ugly, I'm tempted to liberate it for them.

    Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Related terms

    * liberation * liberator

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    Anagrams

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    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.