unman
(verb) cause to lose one’s nerve; “an unmanning experience”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
unman (third-person singular simple present unmans, present participle unmanning, simple past and past participle unmanned)
(transitive, archaic) To castrate; to remove the manhood of.
Synonym: emasculate
(transitive, figurative) To sap the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.
Synonym: emasculate
(transitive) To deprive of men.
• annum, nanmu
Source: Wiktionary
Un*man", v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + man.]
1. To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like. [R.] South.
2. To emasculate; to deprive of virility.
3. 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. Let's not unman each other. Byron.
4. To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
