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castrate

Main Entry:: ¹cas·trate
Pronunciation:: \ˈkas-ˌtrāt\
Function:: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s):: cas·trat·ed; cas·trat·ing

1 a: to deprive of the testes : geld b: to deprive of the ovaries : spay2: to render impotent or deprive of vitality especially by psychological means <uses these ideas…as an instrument to castrate and destroy him — Harold Clurman>

— cas·trat·er or cas·tra·tor \-ər\

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noun

— cas·tra·tion \kas-ˈtrā-shən\

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