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Definition of castrate
castrated
;castrating
castrate
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Examples of castrate in a Sentence
Farmers castrated the bull calf.
a movie version that castrates the hard-hitting novel
Recent Examples of castrate from the Web
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In 2004 a young man used a meat cleaver to castrate and kill his father there.
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And, of course, there is Robert Potter, who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, and in 1831 took out his knife and castrated two men believed to have been involved in an affair with his wife.
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The expensive and easily injured animals are often castrated to improve their tempers.
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This gentle love story set in a forest glen was written for a low female voice and a castrato, a male singer castrated as a child to preserve his ability to produce the high, pure notes of a boy soprano.
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This competition has prompted some species’ males to take drastic action, such as castrating themselves to plug the females’ reproductive tract.
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Enslaved people across the country were lynched, maimed, castrated, and beaten preemptively in terror, and the myths of roving black male rapists on the hunt for white women took hold as the founding pillar of the modern carceral state.
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The horror story repeated most urgently among troopers and guards to justify the violence was that the prisoners had castrated one of the hostages.
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With public pressure mounting, the government began castrating some of the animals, in an attempt to stem their spread.
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Origin and Etymology of castrate
Latin castratus, past participle of castrare; akin to Greek keazein to split, Sanskrit śasati he slaughters
CASTRATE Defined for English Language Learners
castrate
playDefinition of castrate for English Language Learners
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: to remove the testes of (a person or animal)
CASTRATE Defined for Kids
castrate
playDefinition of castrate for Students
castrated
;castrating
: to remove the sex glands of
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of castrate
castrated
;castrating
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