Definitions for castrate

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castrate cas·trate

Spelling: [kas-treyt]

IPA: /ˈkæs treɪt/

Castrate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 298 anagrams from letters in castrate (aacerstt).

Definitions for castrate

noun

1. a castrated person or animal.

verb (used with object)

1. to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
2. to remove the ovaries of.
3. Psychology. to render impotent, literally or metaphorically, by psychological means, especially by threatening a person's masculinity or femininity.
4. to deprive of strength, power, or efficiency; weaken:

Origin of castrate

1605-15; Latin castrātus past participle of castrāre to geld, equivalent to castr- geld + -ātus -ate¹

Examples for castrate

Hence it was not uncommon in Italy to castrate boys in order to fit them for soprano singers when adults.

The Holodias will not rear male calves at their houses, and do not castrate their bulls.

In fact, the estrogen that they employed did worse than castrate the subject—it could act as a cerebral depressant.

They will not castrate cattle even through their servants, but sell the young bulls and buy oxen.

I wish the British would catch and castrate every one of them, so that they may be old women in reality.

We sent them happy thoughts in dreams, inspired them to tame the horse, to castrate the bull, to teach the dog to guard the sheep.

And it seemed like Nic was trying to emasculate and castrate this supposedly clichéd action hero.

He hired the police to castrate the stranger, which was done in the jail.

"If they want to castrate them, that's fine," says Debbie Savoie, vice president of the Massachusetts group Community Voices.

It will be easiest to castrate the kids be89tween the age of two and four weeks.