Unman: Definition and part of speech

Unman

  1. v. t. To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.
  2. v. t. To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like.
  3. v. t. To emasculate; to deprive of virility.
  4. v. t. To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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