To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
To remove the entire male genitalia (the testicles, scrotum, and penis) of (a person or animal).
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.
To soften; to render effeminate.