unman
IPA: ʌnmʌn
verb
- (transitive, archaic) To divest of humanity.
- (transitive, archaic) To castrate; to remove the manhood of.
- (transitive, figurative) To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.
- (transitive) To deprive of men.
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Examples of "unman" in Sentences
- To remind them now of the meals they made of me would mortify and unman them, so I keep that silence.
- Moreover, when you unman your intervention, you may show that you care, but you also reveal that you don't care enough.
- Gavanelli, in contrast, stands and delivers and keeps his gaze in a middle distance as if to look the dying young woman in the eye would melt his cold heart and unman him.
- Seeing that she was about to unman him again as she tried to leap up, this time he all but threw her off his lap and then immediately rolled to the side and sprang to his feet.
- But one of them, the Orakzai Pathan (for nothing could completely unman him), shouted to know whether it was true that pardons had been offered for deserters, and Courtenay nodded.
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