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castration

noun
/kæˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From castrate + -ion.

  1. derived from castrātus
  2. inherited from castrat
  3. suffixed as castration — “castrate + ion”

Definitions

  1. The act of removing the testicles.

    • Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
    • The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages Probed and beaten A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness

  2. Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.

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Derived

alimentary castration, anti-castration, autocastration, cashtration, castration anxiety, chemical castration, elastration, hemicastration, immunocastration, postcastration, semicastration

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