Definition for UN-MAN'

UN-MAN', v.t.

  1. To deprive of the constitutional qualities of a human being, as reason, &c. South.
  2. To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.
  3. To emasculate; to deprive of virility.
  4. To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or reduce into irresolution; to dishearten; to deject. Dryden. Pope.
  5. To dispeople; as, towns unmanned. Goldsmith.

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