to castrate
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9.1
- verb
- /ˈkæstreɪt/
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castrar
- I think he should be castrated.
- to castrate males
- intact and castrated
- to castrate sons
He was made to take drugs to chemically castrate him because he thought he was a deviant.
- He was made to take drugs to chemically castrate him because he thought he was a deviant.
- But what I find really odd is when you get parents championing for their child to be castrated.
- All of the male calves, they are castrated, but they live out their lives on pasture at the farm.
- And then this horrific thing happens where Fulbert sends men to castrate Peter Abelard and they do, they drug him.
- Living beings castrated by wrapping an elastic band around the testicles, waiting for the blood supply to cut off and the organ to decay.
- And we're just going to chemically castrate people and, and remove parts.
- They, the Arabs, deliberately castrated every single male.
- The reason there's no black people as a subpopulation is because they died, they were castrated, they didn't leave offspring.
Examples
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He tried to castrate himself.
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In the play, they castrate him.
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What do you want me to do, castrate myself?
Fiction book (1999) -
Your father said that he would castrate anybody that laid a hand on you.
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It's low in females over here, but if you castrate them, their aggressiveness goes down.
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All of the male calves, they are castrated, but they live out their lives on pasture at the farm.
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When the males mature, they have to be castrated and dehorned; that's the rule.
Fiction book (1991) -
He's been castrated!
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On the farm, the vet explained how to castrate male calves to prevent unwanted breeding.
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Farmers castrate male goats to reduce aggression and make them easier to handle.
Synonyms
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5.3
To remove an animal's organs used to make babies so it cannot reproduce
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5.8
To make a person or animal unable to have children by a medical operation
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9.8
To remove a male animal's testicles so it cannot have babies
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8.3
To stop an animal from having babies by removing or damaging its reproductive organs
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9.9
Remove the testicles of a male animal
To make a person or animal unable to have babies
Antonyms
How Infertile
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9.1
- Specialized
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5.8
- Specialized
- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
castrate = castr + ate
The core 'castr-' is not a recognisable English base and '-ate' is a learned Latin-derived verb-former, so the surgical meaning is not transparently built for an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Castrate as a verb comes from the Latin castrare, meaning 'to cut' or 'remove', so to castrate is to 'cut off' the reproductive organs, such as testicles or ovaries, making reproduction impossible.