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cas·trate
(kăs′trāt′)tr.v. cas·trat·ed, cas·trat·ing, cas·trates
1. To remove the testicles of (a male); geld or emasculate.
2. To remove the ovaries of (a female); spay.
3. 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.
cas′trat·er, cas′tra·tor n.
cas·tra′tion n.
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castrate
(kæˈstreɪt)vb (tr)
1. to remove the testicles of; emasculate; geld
2. to deprive of vigour, masculinity, etc
3. to remove the ovaries of; spay
4. to expurgate or censor (a book, play, etc)
[C17: from Latin castrāre to emasculate, geld]
casˈtration n
casˈtrator, casˈtrater n
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cas•trate
(ˈkæs treɪt)v. -trat•ed, -trat•ing,
n. v.t.
1. to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
2. to remove the ovaries of.
3. to render impotent by psychological means, as disparagement.
4. to deprive of strength.
n. 5. a castrated person or animal.
[1605–15; < Latin castrātus, past participle of castrāre to geld]
cas•tra′tion, n.
cas′tra•tor, n.
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castrate
Past participle: castrated
Gerund: castrating
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| Noun | 1. |  castrate - a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem"adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| Verb | 1. | castrate - deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" weaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body" |
| 2. | castrate - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten, shorten, contract, reduce, cut - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" | |
| 3. | castrate - remove the testicles of a male animal geld, cut - cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses); "the vet gelded the young horse" desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" | |
| 4. |  castrate - remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"defeminise, defeminize - remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" |
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castrate
verb neuter, unman, emasculate, geld She threatened to castrate her husband with a carving knife.
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castrate
verbThe American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
يَخْصي
kastrovat
kastrere
kastroidakuohia
kiherél
vana, gelda
kastravimaskastruoti
kastrēt
kastrovaťvykastrovať
burmakhadım etmekiğdiş etmek
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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castrate
vt → kastrieren; (fig) text → verstümmeln
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
castrate
(kӕˈstreit) , ((American) ˈkӕstreit) verb to remove the sexual organs of (a male animal). The bull has been castrated.
caˈstration nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
cas·trate
vt. castrar, extirpar por los testículos, emascular.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
castrate
vt castrarEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.