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Definitions for castrate
ˈkæs treɪtcas·trate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eunuch, castrateverb

    a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction

    "eunuchs guarded the harem"

  2. emasculate, castrateverb

    deprive of strength or vigor

    "The Senate emasculated the law"

  3. bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shortenverb

    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

    "bowdlerize a novel"

  4. emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculiniseverb

    remove the testicles of a male animal

  5. alter, neuter, spay, castrateverb

    remove the ovaries of

    "Is your cat spayed?"

Wiktionary

  1. castrateverb

    To remove the testicles of.

  2. castrateverb

    To remove the ovaries of.

  3. Etymology: From castratus, past participle of castro.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To CASTRATEverb

    Etymology: castro, Lat.

ChatGPT

  1. castrate

    To castrate is to remove the testicles or otherwise render the reproductive organs of a male animal or person nonfunctional, often to control breeding or reduce aggressive behavior. This procedure may also be performed on a male organism to prevent or treat certain diseases. This term can also be used metaphorically to refer to depriving someone or something of strength, power, or vitality.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Castrateverb

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

  2. Castrateverb

    to cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate

  3. Etymology: [L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to castrate, asin to Skr. astra knife.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Castrate

    kas′trāt, v.t. to deprive of the power of generation, to remove the testicles, geld, emasculate: to take from or render imperfect.—adj. Cas′trated, expurgated.—ns. Castrā′tion, gelding, expurgation; Castrato (kas-trä′tō), a male singer castrated in boyhood so as to preserve a soprano or alto voice:—pl. Castra′ti. [L. castrāre, -ātum.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of castrate in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of castrate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of castrate in a Sentence

  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

  2. Ron DeSantis:

    They don’t tell you what that is ... They are actually giving very young girls double mastectomies, they want to castrate these young boys, both from the health and children wellbeing perspective, you don’t disfigure 10, 12, 13-year-old kids based on gender dysphoria, 80% of it resolves anyways by the time they get older... So why would you be doing this?

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