Pet owners sometimes castrate male animals to make them more docile.
Source: tatoeba (8977325)
Castrate
//ˈkæs.tɹeɪt//
Synonyms for "castrate" (96 found)
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Closest matches (20)
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Related words (48)
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17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
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1 entriesSynonyms
7 entriesderived
12 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
95 translations across 56 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- εὐνουχίζω verb (remove the testicles of)
Arabic
1 entries- خَصَى verb (remove the testicles of)
Armenian
4 entries- ամորձատել verb (remove the testicles of)
- կրտել verb (remove the testicles of)
- մալել verb (remove the testicles of)
- ներքինացնել verb (remove the testicles of)
Aromanian
3 entries- acuchescu verb (remove the testicles of)
- dizgãrescu verb (remove the testicles of)
- shuts verb (remove the testicles of)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- axtalamaq verb (remove the testicles of)
- burmaq verb (remove the testicles of)
Belarusian
3 entries- кастры́раваць verb (remove the testicles of)
- лягча́ць verb (remove the testicles of)
- паклада́ць verb (remove the testicles of)
Bikol Central
1 entries- tibus verb (remove the testicles of)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кастрирам verb (remove the testicles of)
- скопявам verb (remove the testicles of)
Catalan
1 entries- castrar verb (remove the testicles of)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 閹 /阉 verb (remove the testicles of)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 去勢 /去势 verb (remove the testicles of)
- 閹割 /阉割 verb (remove the testicles of)
Czech
2 entries- kastrovat verb (remove the testicles of)
- klestit verb (remove the testicles of)
Danish
1 entries- kastrere verb (remove the testicles of)
Dutch
1 entries- castreren verb (remove the testicles of)
Ewe
1 entries- ta verb (remove the testicles of)
Finnish
4 entries- kastroida verb (remove the testicles of)
- kuohia verb (remove the testicles of)
- kuohita verb (remove the testicles of)
- salvaa verb (remove the testicles of)
French
2 entries- castrer verb (remove the testicles of)
- châtrer verb (remove the testicles of)
Friulian
2 entries- cjastrâ verb (remove the testicles of)
- čhastrâ verb (remove the testicles of)
Galician
1 entries- castrar verb (remove the testicles of)
German
2 entries- kastrieren verb (remove the testicles of)
- verschneiden verb (remove the testicles of)
Greek
1 entries- ευνουχίζω verb (remove the testicles of)
Hebrew
1 entries- סירס verb (remove the testicles of)
Hungarian
3 entries- ivartalanít verb (remove the testicles of)
- kasztrál verb (remove the testicles of)
- kiherél verb (remove the testicles of)
Icelandic
1 entries- gelda verb (remove the testicles of)
Ido
1 entries- kastrar verb (remove the testicles of)
Indonesian
1 entries- mengebiri verb (remove the testicles of)
Ingrian
1 entries- naittaa verb (remove the testicles of)
Irish
1 entries- coill verb (remove the testicles of)
Italian
1 entries- castrare verb (remove the testicles of)
Japanese
1 entries- 去勢する verb (remove the testicles of)
Korean
1 entries- 거세(去勢)하다 verb (remove the testicles of)
Latin
1 entries- castrō verb (remove the testicles of)
Lithuanian
2 entries- kastrúoti verb (remove the testicles of)
- rómyti verb (remove the testicles of)
Macedonian
2 entries- кастрира verb (remove the testicles of)
- скопи verb (remove the testicles of)
Malay
2 entries- kasi verb (remove the testicles of)
- kembiri verb (remove the testicles of)
Mongolian
2 entries- засах verb (remove the testicles of)
- хөнгөлөх verb (remove the testicles of)
Māori
3 entries- poka verb (remove the testicles of)
- poka raho verb (remove the testicles of)
- unaka verb (remove the testicles of)
Norwegian
1 entries- gjelle verb (remove the testicles of)
Old English
1 entries- belisnian verb (remove the testicles of)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بورمق verb (remove the testicles of)
Polish
2 entries- kastrować verb (remove the testicles of)
- wykastrować verb (remove the testicles of)
Portuguese
2 entries- capar verb (remove the testicles of)
- castrar verb (remove the testicles of)
Romanian
1 entries- castra verb (remove the testicles of)
Russian
4 entries- кастри́ровать verb (remove the testicles of)
- оскопи́ть verb (remove the testicles of)
- оскопля́ть verb (remove the testicles of)
- скопи́ть verb (remove the testicles of)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- spoth verb (remove the testicles of)
Slovak
1 entries- vykastrovať verb (remove the testicles of)
Spanish
2 entries- capar verb (remove the testicles of)
- castrar verb (remove the testicles of)
Swedish
3 entries- gälla verb (remove the testicles of)
- kastrera verb (remove the testicles of)
- snöpa verb (remove the testicles of)
Tagalog
1 entries- basigin verb (remove the testicles of)
Thai
1 entries- ตอน verb (remove the testicles of)
Tibetan
3 entries- ཉུག་རུམ་བཟོས verb (remove the testicles of)
- བྱ་བཅད verb (remove the testicles of)
- སྒོང་རྡོག་བཏོན verb (remove the testicles of)
Turkish
3 entries- hadım etmek verb (remove the testicles of)
- iğdiş etmek verb (remove the testicles of)
- kısırlaştırmak verb (remove the testicles of)
Ukrainian
2 entries- каструва́ти verb (remove the testicles of)
- оскопля́ти verb (remove the testicles of)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thiến verb (remove the testicles of)
Volapük
1 entries- negenükön verb (remove the testicles of)
West-Frisian
1 entries- lobje verb (remove the testicles of)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Farmers usually castrate male piglets to prevent them from accumulating a bad taste known as "boar taint." This is often done without anesthetics.
Source: tatoeba (11166676)
Don't castrate kids with puberty blockers.
Source: tatoeba (11504457)
The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor.
Source: wiktionary
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