émasculer
French, verb/e.mas.ky.le/
émasculer is spelled É-M-A-S-C-U-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émasculer is a French verb meaning “to emasculate (to deprive a male of the organs of reproduction)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Châtrer ; pratiquer une émasculation”.
What does émasculer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to emasculate (to deprive a male of the organs of reproduction)
- 2
to emasculate (to make weak, to deprive one of one's strength, to strip of one's original strength)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Châtrer ; pratiquer une émasculation. 2. Rendre efféminé. 3. Ôter la force de.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of émasculer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- émasculant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- émasculé participle past
- émascule first-person indicative present
- émascules indicative present second-person
- émasculons first-person indicative plural
- émasculez indicative plural present
- émasculent indicative plural present
- émasculais first-person imperfect indicative
- émasculait imperfect indicative singular
- émasculions first-person imperfect indicative
- émasculiez imperfect indicative plural
- émasculaient imperfect indicative plural
- émasculai first-person historic indicative
- émasculas historic indicative past
- émascula historic indicative past
- émasculâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émasculer?
- /e.mas.ky.le/
- \e.mas.ky.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to émasculer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émasculer in French?
émasculer appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).