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Castrate

//ˈkæs.tɹeɪt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A castrated man; a eunuch.

    "The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor."

  2. 2
    a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the testicles of a person or animal. transitive

    "If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body."

  2. 2
    remove the ovaries of wordnet
  3. 3
    To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal. transitive, uncommon
  4. 4
    remove the testicles of a male animal wordnet
  5. 5
    To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual. figuratively, transitive
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  1. 6
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate wordnet
  2. 7
    deprive of strength or vigor wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Likely from an unattested sense of Middle English castrat (“(adjective) castrated; (noun) a castrated animal”), substantivized borrowing of Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of castrō (“to prune, amputate, castrate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix)).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of Latin castrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Displaced native geld in its broader sense.

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