emasculate: Word of the day for January 17, 2018

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : emasculate , v :
(transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld. (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. (transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.