castrate

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cas‧trate/kæˈstreɪt $ ˈkæstreɪt/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Latin; Origin : past participle of castrare]
to remove the testiclesof a male animal or a man

—castration /kæˈstreɪʃən/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Every two or three years the family organises a festival for branding the calves and castrating the young bulls.
▪ He had apparently adopted the Danakil custom of castrating the dead and dying.
▪ In many such cases, vets often castrate the apparent aggressor, but this invariably makes matter a lot worse.
▪ One of the young man's eyes had been gouged out and he had been castrated.
▪ Store boss James Andrews was warned his sons would be castrated if he did not get the ransom.
▪ The farmer may castrate the excess bulls, creating steers, or slaughter them.
▪ The guide picked up the rifle, shot and castrated him, and made off.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  eunuch, alter, neuter, spay, emasculate, demasculinize, demasculinise, bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten