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castrates cas·trate

Spelling: [kas-treyt]

IPA: /ˈkæs treɪt/

Castrates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 371 anagrams from letters in castrates (aacersstt).

Definitions for castrates

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 castrates

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

Examples for castrates

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.