| VERB | change | castrate, emasculate | deprive of strength or vigor |
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| change | castrate, bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | |
| body | castrate, emasculate, demasculinize, demasculinise | remove the testicles of a male animal | |
| body | castrate, alter, neuter, spay | remove the ovaries of | |
| NOUN | person | castrate, eunuch | a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction |
| Sounds | kae'strey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | A man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction. | |
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| Synonym | eunuch | |
| Broader | man, adult male | An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) |
| Spanish | castrado, eunico, eunuco | |
| Catalan | caponat, eunuc | |
| Verbs | castrate | remove the testicles of a male animal |
| Meaning | deprive of strength or vigor. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | emasculate | |
| Broader | weaken | lessen the strength of |
| Spanish | castrar, debilitar, emascular, mutilar | |
| Catalan | emascular, mutilar | |
| Meaning | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten | |
| Broader | abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce | Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
| Spanish | expurgar | |
| Catalan | expurgar | |
| Nouns | castration | the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work |
| Meaning | Remove the testicles of a male animal. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | emasculate, demasculinize, demasculinise | |
| Narrower | caponize, caponise | convert a cock into a capon |
| geld, cut | cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | |
| Broader | sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix | make infertile |
| Spanish | capar, castrar, emascular | |
| Catalan | castrar | |
| Nouns | castrate | a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction |
| castration | neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | |
| Meaning | Remove the ovaries of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | alter, neuter, spay | |
| Narrower | defeminize, defeminise | Remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) |
| Broader | sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix | make infertile |
| Spanish | castrar, esterilizar | |
| Nouns | castration | surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) |
| neutering | the sterilization of an animal | |
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