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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
Adjective
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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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Evidence also led officials to arrest an unnamed juvenile, who police say is facing charges of criminal use of an article with an altered identification mark and possession of a handgun by a person under 18.
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Court records show he was also charged with failure to stop at a stop sign or flashing red light, failure to heed to a siren, a window tinting violation, and having a fake or altered tag or registration.
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In the finals, Israel faced an Australian team already exhausted after fending off South Korea, Japan and Rhodesia (itself in the Asian tournament after being banned in Africa over its white governing regime).
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For years, people have been frustrated and exhausted by the seemingly endless amount of swiping and small talk that go nowhere on dating apps.
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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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These plants may not thrive in soil that's poorly drained or overly compacted.
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Something uncertain, something human, has been drained like blood from this world.
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Yet finance, policy certainty and infrastructure weakened for the first time in more than a decade.
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Internal fractures, economic decline and public frustration have weakened the movement and opened a new chapter of uncertainty.
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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 3 Jul. 2026.
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