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Castrate   /kˈæstrˌeɪt/   Listen
Castrate

verb
(past & past part. castrated; pres. part. castrating)
1.
Deprive of strength or vigor.  Synonym: emasculate.
2.
Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.  Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten.
3.
Remove the testicles of a male animal.  Synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate.
4.
Remove the ovaries of.  Synonyms: alter, neuter, spay.






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"Castrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... decrease &c 36; abrasion. V. subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract. garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate^; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind^, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate. diminish &c 36; curtail &c (shorten) 201; deprive of &c (take) 789; weaken. Adj. subtracted &c v.; subtractive. Adv. in deduction &c n.; less; short of; minus, without, except, except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Castrate" :   weaken, sterilize, desexualize, fix, man, caponize, defeminise, cut, castration, defeminize, sterilise, desex, neutering, geld, contract, reduce, foreshorten, caponise, adult male, desexualise, unsex, abridge, abbreviate



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