emasculate

verb

1 our winner-take-all elections emasculate fringe parties:

weaken, make feeble/feebler, debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, dilute, erode, undermine, impoverish, cripple, reduce the powers of;

remove the sting from, pull the teeth of;

informal water down.

▷antonyms strengthen.

2 young cocks should be emasculated at three months old:

castrate, neuter, geld, cut, desex, asexualize, sterilize, remove the testicles of;

unman;

North American, & Australian alter;

informal doctor, fix;

rare evirate, caponize, eunuchize.