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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



... I infer that ten must be annually born to make up the deaths from various causes. In Paraguay, Azara states that in a herd of 4,000, from 1,000 to 1,300 are reared; but then, though they do not kill calves, but castrate the young bulls, no doubt the oxen would be killed earlier than the cows, so that the herd would contain probably more of the female sex than the herd at Chillingham. There is not apparently any record whether more young bulls are killed than cows. I am surprised that ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin



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



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