castrate
cas·trate (kas′trāt′)
transitive verb -·trat′ed, -·trat′·ing
- to remove the testicles of; emasculate; geld
- Rare to remove the ovaries of; spay
- to deprive of essential virility, vigor, or significance by mutilating, expurgating, subjugating, etc.; emasculate
Etymology: < L castratus, pp. of castrare, to castrate, prune: for IE base see caste
castrate
v.
Object
- male: Being a 27 year old castrated male, there are few options open to him.
- opposition: However, just as they did with Community Health Councils, Labor wants to castrate opposition.
- cat: Ginger is a fifteen year old male, castrated cat.
- man: The follicles in the castrated man lost twenty years of hair in six months!
- lamb: One of the reasons many farmers castrate male lambs is to avoid injury through fighting.
- pig: Episode 12 ( 17 NOV 90 ) Promises to Keep Tristan has to castrate a pig.
Preposition: before
- puberty: Further, men castrated before puberty never get prostate cancer.
Preposition: at
- age: A dog can be castrated at any age but it is generally thought best to wait until he is physically mature before doing so.
Infinitive complement
- prevent: In early 1999 we had Domino castrated to prevent any more babies.
Modifying Another Word
- now: Percival, black with white nose, now castrated Roger, brown with white nose, now castrated.
- not: Male rabbits Male rabbits ( bucks ) make responsive pets, but have the same drawbacks as tom cats if they're not castrated.
- yet: Trigger is 11 months old, vaccinated but not yet castrated.
- then: Young boys were sold to the church by poor parents, and then castrated to preserve their high voices.
- rather: There are concerns that rams of the susceptible genotype might be castrated rather than slaughtered.
Yo soy un artista. El placer de la carne le resta fuerzas a mi vocacio¤ n picto¤ rica, prefiero sentir que los jugos de mi sexo fluyen hacia un cuadro, lo irrigan, lo fertilizan, lo realzan; ca¤ strame el goce de la carne, satisfa¤ ceme el goce del arte. Iamanartist.The pleasure ofthefleshrobsstrengthfrom myartistic vocation, I prefer to feel my sexual juices flow toward a painting, wash over it, fertilize it, realize it; the delights of the flesh castrate me, the delights of art satisfy me.
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