emasculates

英 [iˈmæskjuleɪts]

美 [iˈmæskjuleɪts]

v.  削弱; 使无力; 使失去效力; 使(男人)柔弱; 使无男子气
emasculate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 削弱;使势力减弱;使无效
  If someone or somethingis emasculated, they have been made weak and ineffective.
  1. Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised...
     左派持不同政见者已经遭到削弱和排挤。
  2. The company tried to emasculate the unions...
     公司试图削弱工会的力量。
  3. Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
     自日本战败后，日本军队遭到大幅削减。
• VERB 使缺乏男子气；使柔弱
  If a manis emasculated, he loses his male role, identity, or qualities.
  1. Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.
     托什是出了名的天不怕地不怕，但是他明显被他的女朋友驯服帖了。

双语例句

• In so doing it also emasculates the sovereign rights of small countries that have long been the prime defenders of multilateralism and international law as well as the foremost policy innovators.
  它的这种做法，同样削弱了小国的主权长期以来，它们一直是多边主义和国际法的主要捍卫者，同时也是最重要的政策创新者。