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to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality
a movie version that castrates the hard-hitting novel
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Recent Examples of castrated
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
Seemingly to help stave off temptation, a half dozen of the 18 male cult members who died had been surgically castrated, according to The New York Times, including Applewhite.
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Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
8 June 2026
If the very successful 25-year-old Coward had been caught with a man, he could have been jailed or chemically castrated.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
After his conviction, Turing was chemically castrated.
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Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
Set in the Italian opera world of the 1700s, Rice’s novel tells the not-for-the-squeamish story of two male soprano singers who were castrated as boys in order to maintain their high voices.
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David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
12 Nov. 2025
Donkey has now been castrated, and the adorable family trio lives together in a large field with Partridge's other horses.
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Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
Earlier this month, on Monday, June 8, Municipal Court Judge Louis Sancinito found Lowe guilty of possessing the deer without a permit, interfering with a conservation officer attempting to confiscate the animal, and having Rudy illegally castrated.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
Seemingly to help stave off temptation, a half dozen of the 18 male cult members who died had been surgically castrated, according to The New York Times, including Applewhite.
—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
8 June 2026
If the very successful 25-year-old Coward had been caught with a man, he could have been jailed or chemically castrated.
—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
After his conviction, Turing was chemically castrated.
—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
Set in the Italian opera world of the 1700s, Rice’s novel tells the not-for-the-squeamish story of two male soprano singers who were castrated as boys in order to maintain their high voices.
—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
12 Nov. 2025
Donkey has now been castrated, and the adorable family trio lives together in a large field with Partridge's other horses.
—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for castrated
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By contrast, Gercke’s emasculated George speaks in the monotonous style of a man worn down by life.
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Squeaky voices were comic, or emasculated.
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Over his 18-year tenure at the Fed, Greenspan embodied the omnipotent technocrat — a legacy critics say was fatally undermined by his failure to spot the 2008 housing bubble.
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Only one in five workers was fully engaged; one in seven actively undermined the firm.
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Affected babies may show symptoms including constipation, poor feeding, drooping eyelid, sluggish pupils, low muscle tone, difficulty sucking and swallowing, weak or altered crying, difficulty breathing, and generalized weakness.
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Sleep talking, formally called somniloquy, from the Latin somnus (sleep) and loqui (to speak), is one of the most common altered behaviors in human sleep.
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And Louis, perhaps exhausted from his spree of bouts, but also perhaps looking past Schmeling, hadn’t trained much.
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Once the trust fund is exhausted, the system will continue to receive payroll and self-employment taxes each year.
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All adoptable pets are spayed, neutered and up to date on vaccines and tests.
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This reader hopes that will be a rebuttal to all the dubious America 250 content flooding orgs beholden to the neutered NEA.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the National Mall fixture has turned an algae green (this often happens after it is drained for maintenance).
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Rumors swirled that Lachlan and his Scottish country mates — the traveling pep squad known as the Tartan Army — had drained the pub of all its beer on Sunday night.
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The decision weakened the federal Voting Rights Act’s protections against racially discriminatory redistricting.
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Brexit’s tortuous complexity weakened governance and led to parliamentary deadlock.
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For the second time this season, the Red Raiders gelded the Cougars.
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“Castrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/castrated. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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