Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To remove the testicles of (a male); geld or emasculate.
- v. To remove the ovaries of (a female); spay.
- v. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To deprive of the testicles; geld; emasculate.
- In botany, to deprive (a flower) of its anthers.
- To remove something objectionable from, as obscene parts from a writing; expurgate; destroy the strength or virility of; emasculate.
- To take out a leaf or sheet from, and render imperfect; mutilate.
- Figuratively, to take the vigor or spirit from; mortify.
- Gelded; emasculated.
- In botany, deprived of the anthers; anantherous: applied to stamens or flowers.
- n. One who or that which has been castrated, gelded, or emasculated; a eunuch.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
- v. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- n. a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
- v. remove the testicles of a male animal
- v. remove the ovaries of
- v. deprive of strength or vigor
Etymologies
- From Latin castrātus, past participle of castrō. (Wiktionary)
- Latin castrāre, castrāt-; see kes- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Preliminary results of the company's ongoing Phase I/IIa clinical trial with Apoptone (HE3235) for hormone-resistant prostate cancer (also called castrate-resistant prostate cancer or CRPC) were presented on November 16, 2009 at the Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics Conference.”
“The trial involved 1,432 men with so-called castrate-resistant prostate cancer who were randomly assigned to receive injections every four weeks of denosumab or a placebo.”
“Ellen lay out for me every way that she had seen me "castrate" men, or knew that I had by the result.”
“Further yet, he has astonishingly wondered aloud if she (Pelosi) would "castrate" House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.”
“For example, a delegation from Texas could go to California and show the Californians how to do some traditional Texas thing such as castrate a bull using only your teeth, and then the Californians could show the Texans how to rearrange their football stadiums in accordance with the principles of "feng shui" (for openers, both goalposts should be at the west end of the field).”
“Italian "castrate" who said he provoked sexual pleasure by partially hanging himself.”
“The herbicide atrazine, for example, has been shown to chemically "castrate" some male frogs and turn others into females able to lay eggs, according to a March study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
“Expenses purge will 'castrate' Parliament warns Labour veteran as MPs 'wives launch High Court bid ...”
“Catholics and Baptists don't "castrate", stone, "honor kill", or deny women entry into”
“Expenses purge will 'castrate' Parliament warns Labour veteran as MPs 'wives launch High Court bid to keep their jobs”
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