Castrate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To remove the testicles of (a male); geld or emasculate.
  • v. To remove the ovaries of (a female); spay.
  • v. To deprive of virility or spirit; emasculate.
  • n. An individual who is incapable of reproduction as a result of removal, destruction, or inactivation of the gonads.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To remove the testicles of.
  • v. To remove the ovaries of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
  • v. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deprive of the testicles; geld; emasculate.
  • In botany, to deprive (a flower) of its anthers.
  • To remove something objectionable from, as obscene parts from a writing; expurgate; destroy the strength or virility of; emasculate.
  • To take out a leaf or sheet from, and render imperfect; mutilate.
  • Figuratively, to take the vigor or spirit from; mortify.
  • Gelded; emasculated.
  • In botany, deprived of the anthers; anantherous: applied to stamens or flowers.
  • n. One who or that which has been castrated, gelded, or emasculated; a eunuch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  • n. a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
  • v. remove the testicles of a male animal
  • v. remove the ovaries of
  • v. deprive of strength or vigor
  • Verb Form
    castrated    castrates    castrating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shorten    abbreviate    abridge    contract    foreshorten   
    Form
    castrator    castratrix   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    expurgate    geld    cut    spay    emasculate