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castrate

noun
/kæsˈtɹeɪt/UK/ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/US

Etymology

Likely from an unattested sense of Middle English castrat (“(adjective) castrated; (noun) a castrated animal”), substantivized borrowing of Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of castrō (“to prune, amputate, castrate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix)).

  1. derived from castrātus
  2. inherited from castrat

Definitions

  1. A castrated man

    A castrated man; a eunuch.

    • The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor.

  2. To remove the testicles of a person or animal.

    • If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.

  3. To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To take something from

      To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.

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Derived

castratable, castratee, castrater, castration, castratism, castrative, castrator, castratrix, hemicastrate, immunocastrate, semicastrate, uncastrate

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA