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Adjective: castrated  'ka`streytud
  1. Deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes
    - unsexed
Verb: castrate  kastreyt
  1. Deprive of strength or vigour
    - emasculate
     
  2. Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
    - bowdlerize, bowdlerise [Brit], expurgate, shorten
     
  3. Remove the testicles of a male animal
    - emasculate, demasculinize, demasculinise [Brit]
     
  4. Remove the ovaries of
    - alter, neuter, spay

See also: altered, castration, cut, emasculated, gelded, neuter, neutered, neutering, spayed

Type of: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, fix, foreshorten, reduce, shorten, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, unsex, weaken

Antonym: uncastrated

Encyclopedia: Castrate

Castrated