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emasculate

verb

Reveal meaning and examples

To take away the strength, effectiveness, or power of something.

Removing the enforcement provisions would emasculate the proposed safeguard.

Dictionary practice example.

Removing every worked illustration would emasculate the catalog's teaching purpose by taking away the examples on which its explanations depend.