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Definition:

1. (archaic) To castrate; to remove one's manhood.
2. To sap the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.

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The idea was too horrible to be borne for a moment. It unmanned him utterly, and he hid his face between his two hands and sobbed aloud like one broken-hearted.

Grant Allen. Strange Stories.

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here he lamented outright; unmanned by a sense of his bitter injuries, and Earnshaw’s ingratitude and dangerous condition.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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The boatswain, unmanned for the first time, respectfully dried his eyes on the Jack,

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)