emasculates

英 [iˈmæskjuleɪts]

美 [iˈmæskjuleɪts]

v. 削弱; 使无力; 使失去效力; 使(男人)柔弱; 使无男子气
emasculate的第三人称单数

VERB 削弱;使势力减弱;使无效
If someone or something is emasculated, they have been made weak and ineffective.
1. Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised...
  左派持不同政见者已经遭到削弱和排挤。
2. The company tried to emasculate the unions...
  公司试图削弱工会的力量。
3. Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
  自日本战败后，日本军队遭到大幅削减。
VERB 使缺乏男子气；使柔弱
If a man is emasculated, he loses his male role, identity, or qualities.
1. Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.
  托什是出了名的天不怕地不怕，但是他明显被他的女朋友驯服帖了。

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In so doing it also emasculates the sovereign rights of small countries that have long been the prime defenders of multilateralism and international law as well as the foremost policy innovators.
它的这种做法，同样削弱了小国的主权长期以来，它们一直是多边主义和国际法的主要捍卫者，同时也是最重要的政策创新者。