| NOUN | act | castration, emasculation | neutering a male animal by removing the testicles |
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| act | 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) | |
| act | castration, expurgation | the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work |
| Sounds | kae.strey'shahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | neutering a male animal by removing the testicles. | |
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| Synonym | emasculation | |
| Broader | neutering, fixing, altering | The sterilization of an animal |
| Spanish | capadura, castración, emasculación | |
| Catalan | castració, emasculació | |
| Verbs | castrate | remove the testicles of a male animal |
| Meaning | Surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men). | |
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| Example | "bilateral castration results in sterilization" | |
| Broader | operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process | A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments |
| Verbs | castrate | remove the ovaries of |
| Meaning | The deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work. | |
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| Synonym | expurgation | |
| Narrower | bowdlerization, bowdlerisation | The act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent |
| Broader | deletion | The act of deleting something written or printed |
| Spanish | castración, censura, expurgación | |
| Catalan | expurgació | |
| Verbs | castrate | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
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