BUTCHING Antonyms

• having unsuitable feminine qualities

• deprive of strength or vigor

• remove the testicles of a male animal

• renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations

• make (images or sounds) soft or softer

• lessen in force or effect

• give in, as to influence or pressure

• protect from impact

• make less severe or harsh

• make soft or softer

• become soft or softer

• very restrained or quiet

• brought from wildness into a domesticated state

• flat and uninspiring

• very docile

• correct by punishment or discipline

• make less strong or intense; soften

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

• make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans

• not possessing qualities befitting a man

• without qualities thought to befit a man

• lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful

• lessen the strength of

• become weaker

• destroy property or hinder normal operations

• reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of

• lessen in force or effect

• assume (more) feminine characteristics

• to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to

• Not masculine; not characteristic of, typical of, or appropriate for a man