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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
  • But how successful those incentives are is undermined by the liquidity’s churn, experts said.
    — Davis Giangiulio,Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Shula, believing he had been undermined, never forgave Johnson.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Current quality checks are efficient at detecting simple genetic changes, such as an altered DNA letter or a small piece of DNA that has been removed or added.
    — Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
  • In private, Future Nyota explains what’s going on, describing the altered timeline and Scotty’s death.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But seven months into the conflict, with no clear end in sight, the global oil market has now largely exhausted the safety measures that exist to keep a lid on petroleum prices.
    — Greg Pollock, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Such litigation should only be considered as a last resort once all other reasonable options have been exhausted.
    — Michael L. Hyman, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 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
  • Having drained their budgets responding to the market shocks of the Gulf conflict, many governments will meet these new challenges with empty coffers.
    — DAN RESTREPO, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Over 600 million gallons of that water have now been drained, treated to remove contaminants and pumped deep underground.
    — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Whichever one remains standing will be wounded and weakened, and the human forces can then finish that monster off.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026
  • From May through August, when technology weakened, other sectors stepped up, allowing RSP to continue higher and eventually reach the upside target from its own inverse head-and-shoulders pattern.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 27 Sep. 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 3 Oct. 2026.

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