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11appalling — adj 1. frightening, alarming, intimidating, harrowing, terrifying, horrifying; frightful, fearful, dreadful, awful, dire, terrible, horrible; horrid, hideous, ghastly, grisly; shocking, startling, astounding, stunning, stupefying, paralyzing,… …
12castration — n asexualization, effeminization, Surgery. orchidectomy; ovariectomy, oophorectomy; altering, gelding, unmanning …
13debility — n 1. weakness, feebleness, enfeeblement, lack of strength, Pathol. asthenia, Pathol. adynamia; infirmity, exhaustion, prostration, enervation; decrepitude, caducity, senility; emasculation, castration, unmanning, impotence, impuissance. 2.… …
14demoralization — n 1. destruction of morale, disheartenment, taking the fight or heart out of, Inf. taking the spunk out of; crushing, breaking down, unmanning, subdual; paralysis, crippling, devitalization, enervation, weakening, loss of courage. 2. bewilderment …
15emasculation — n 1. castration, asexualization, alteration, demasculinization, effeminization; unmanning, eunuchizing, (of fowl) caponization, (of horses) gelding, Inf. fixing, Inf. cutting; maiming, crippling, mutilation. 2. weakening, softening, debilitation; …
16unman — /ʌnˈmæn / (say un man) verb (t) (unmanned, unmanning) 1. to deprive of the character or qualities of a man. 2. Obsolete to deprive of virility; emasculate. 3. to deprive of manly courage or fortitude; break down the manly spirit of. 4. to deprive …
17unman — ► VERB (unmanned, unmanning) literary ▪ deprive of manly qualities such as self control or courage …
18unman — [unman′] vt. unmanned, unmanning 1. to deprive of manly courage, nerve, self confidence, etc. 2. to emasculate; castrate 3. to deprive of men or personnel: now usually in the pp.: cf. UNMANNED SYN. UNNERVE …
19unman — v.tr. (unmanned, unmanning) 1 deprive of supposed manly qualities (e.g. self control, courage); cause to weep etc., discourage. 2 deprive (a ship etc.) of men …
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