emasculating in English

verb
1
make (a person, idea, or piece of legislation) weaker or less effective.
our winner-take-all elections emasculate fringe parties
synonyms:weakenenfeebledebilitateerodeunderminecrippleremove the sting frompull the teeth out ofwater down
verb

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1. It's very emasculating.

2. Being a compulsive Apologizer is highly emasculating and instead of getting you into people’s good graces as you might assume, will simply erode their respect for you

3. Atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.

4. The Appellees' argument that the prohibition itself is self-emasculating because while stipulating in its first sentence that any unapproved transfer or sublease shall be null and void, it states in the second sentence that "a transfer not previously approved or reported shall be considered sufficient cause for the cancellation of the permit