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Castrate   /kˈæstrˌeɪt/   Listen
Castrate

noun
1.
A man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction.  Synonym: eunuch.






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"Castrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... punished by whipping, so that they may not get the habit. On rainy days their kennels should be bedded with leaves or grass, for two reasons: that they may not soil themselves or suffer from cold. Some castrate their puppies thinking them less likely to leave the flock, but others do not, thinking that the operation makes them less fierce. Some rub their ears and between their toes with a suffusion of bitter almonds steeped in water ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato



Words linked to "Castrate" :   sterilise, weaken, foreshorten, neutering, man, unsex, fix, sterilize, castration, desexualise, reduce, spay, cut, defeminise, caponize, desexualize, abbreviate, contract, desex, bowdlerise, abridge, adult male, caponise, geld, defeminize



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