Thread: emasculate
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Old 12-07-2005, 01:16 AM
jba jba is offline
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Well, en- and em- (not e- as I originally posted, my bad) usually make adjectives into verbs. I don't think ex- has that attribute.

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emancipate, emerge, emigrate, emit

these are all derived from ex- (out), not en- (in)
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