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Castrate v. t. (past & past part. castrated; pres. part. castrating)

To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. "My... correspondent... has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places."

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"Castrate" Quotes from Famous Books

... he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the only time I ever heard him say any thing witty)[545] observed, that 'if Rochester had been castrated himself, his exceptionable poems would not have ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... Is Whitbread determined to castrate all my cavalry lines [1]? I don't see why t'other house should be spared; besides it is the public, who ought to know better; and you recollect Johnson's was against similar buffooneries of Rich's—but, certes, I am ...

— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron

Words linked to "Castrate" : geld, foreshorten, abridge, unsex, fix, caponize, emasculate, adult male, shorten, defeminize, caponise, contract, cut, neutering, neuter, desexualize, eunuch