Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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emasculate

UK /ɪˈmask.jʊlˌeɪt/ · US /əˈmæs.kjəˌleɪt/ verb, adjective

Forms emasculates emasculating emasculated

  1. verb (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
  2. verb (specifically) To remove the entire male genitalia (the testicles, scrotum, and penis) of (a person or animal).
  3. verb (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
  4. verb (transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.
  5. adjective Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.

Synonyms

unman debilitate demasculate enervate enfeeble castrate demasculinize demasculinise effeminate epicene cissy sissified sissyish sissy

Antonyms

empower invigorate masculate strengthen

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ēmasculātus, perfect passive participle of ēmasculō (“to emasculate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from, apart”) + masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), further from mās (“a man, a male”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ēmasculātus (more at Etymology 1), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
  2. verb To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
  3. adjective Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate slave." Hammond.

Etymology [L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine. See Male masculine.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “emasculate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details