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castrated

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verb

past tense of castrate

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Recent Examples of castrated
Verb
This is the league, remember, where a man (Harvey Updyke) confessed to poisoning the trees at Auburn on a radio show after Alabama lost to the Tigers, and a coach (Jackie Sherrill at Mississippi State) castrated a bull to motivate his squad. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 Those expectations got castrated because of last season’s early struggles. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026 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. — 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
Adjective
  • There’s an incident at a gun range where Ned’s fear of looking emasculated requires his army vet girlfriend to fall for his very dumb, very obvious lies.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
  • And that’s the main tension this season, as Beau is feeling emasculated by the dynamic.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Despite the tension, Humphries rejected the suggestion that the issue would have undermined the chemistry behind her Olympic gold medals.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Renewed fighting in Tigray has undermined the 2022 peace agreement that ended a two-year war, as mounting tensions between Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea have raised fears of a wider conflict.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • The regions of the brain that control emotion and memory, like the amygdala and hippocampus, also function differently during this altered state.
    — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Research has linked altered cortisol activity with greater abdominal and visceral fat, although the relationship is complex.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The person with the least votes after each round is eliminated, with ballots reapportioned or exhausted until the winner clears 50%.
    — Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In fact, even before the show actually starts, Bob can be exhausted, having been awake since some ridiculous hour.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • All adoptable pets are spayed, neutered and up to date on vaccines and tests.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • This reader hopes that will be a rebuttal to all the dubious America 250 content flooding orgs beholden to the neutered NEA.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Following a major eruption in 2018 that partly drained one of the underground lava reservoirs, there were indications that it was being steadily refilled.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Not only that, but the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been aggressively drained to ease the energy shock.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Isaias has weakened dramatically since making landfall last night as a Category 2 hurricane.
    — Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Wide swaths of the Southwest were deluged Sunday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel weakened and moved inland, but coastal communities already battered by high surf emerged with less damage than some officials feared.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • For the second time this season, the Red Raiders gelded the Cougars.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Dec. 2025

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“Castrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/castrated. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

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