castrate
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈkæstreɪt/
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- In the story, the castrate faced many challenges after his medical procedure, including societal stigma.
Examples
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Arguing that high school should teach American values rather than American history, Cheney led the charge for American high schools to sanitize—maybe castrate would be a more apt term—the history curriculum.
Blog text (6) -
The handful of men who claim they don't look at porn are liars or castrates.
Blog text (17) -
Presupposition castrates...
Blog text (8) -
Bello, A.A. and Adama, T.Z. (2012). Studies on Body Weight and Linear Body Measurements of Castrates and Non-Castrates.
Academic text (2013) -
Because we knew that estrogens have important effects on brain sexual differentiation in songbirds, and there was evidence that estrogens were present in considerable abundance in the blood of males, including castrates, we were particularly interested in the tissue source of this circulating estrogen.
Academic text (1994) -
The doctor explained that a castrate is a man who can no longer have children due to surgery.
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The old book discussed the history of castrates in ancient civilizations and their roles in society.
Synonyms
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9.6
A man who is castrated and often serves in royal households
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
castrate = castr + ate
The verb-stem 'castr-' is not a standalone English word and the suffix '-ate' is a Latin-derived verb-forming element, so learners cannot reliably derive this noun meaning from familiar English components.
Etymology
Castrate as a noun comes from the Latin verb castrare, which means 'to cut' or 'remove'. Long ago, men who had been made unable to reproduce were called castrates, so the word names a man who has been castrated.