The difference between Emasculate and Enfeeble

When used as verbs, emasculate means to deprive of virile or procreative power, whereas enfeeble means to make feeble.


Emasculate is also adjective with the meaning: deprived of virility or vigor.

check bellow for the other definitions of Emasculate and Enfeeble

  1. Emasculate as an adjective:

    Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.

  1. Emasculate as a verb (transitive):

    To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.

  2. Emasculate as a verb (transitive):

    To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

  3. Emasculate as a verb (transitive, botany):

    Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.

  1. Enfeeble as a verb (transitive):

    To make feeble.