castrates

verb

present tense third-person singular of castrate
as in undermines
to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality a movie version that castrates the hard-hitting novel

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Recent Examples of castrates By way of example, Morris points to a scene in Wiseman's 1993 documentary Zoo, in which an all-women surgical team at Miami zoo castrates a wolf. — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 16 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for castrates
  1. undermines
  2. weakens
  3. exhausts
  4. drains
  5. wears
  6. petrifies
Verb
  • Such an approach undermines confidence in FIFA’s governance framework and diminishes the authority of its statutory bodies.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • The new law, however, includes a provision that critics say undermines privacy and threatens individual safety.
    — Aakash Hassan, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026
Definition of undermines
Verb
  • In fact, researchers warn that regular use not only weakens healthy sleep but increases the risk of dependence.
    — Joan M. Cook, Time, 31 July 2026
  • Water limits visibility and weakens the effectiveness of traditional surveillance systems such as radar.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026
Definition of weakens
Verb
  • That’s because even ordinary winds – and far worse, storms and earthquakes – cause tall buildings to sway, which ruins people’s concentration, wrecks their mood, and even exhausts them.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 July 2026
  • Watching this scene, and much of the film, exhausts me.
    — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
Definition of exhausts
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  • Redesign how the job actually gets done on-site, begin with where your people spend their time and what drains it, and bring in technology to serve that work.
    — Jessica Beck, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Continue reading … DIGITAL HEIST — Coldcard wallet attack drains up to $89M in Bitcoin from 1,200+ addresses.
    — , FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of drains
Verb
  • That patience pays off in the way Extrait wears so richly, albeit noticeably softer and more enveloping than its raw materials read on paper.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Violet Spurgeon wears a yellow dress, a rainbow sash, a tiara and a pair of boxing gloves with her name printed across them.
    — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of wears
Verb
  • The former slingshots between harmony and hysteria; the latter petrifies its beauty under a haze of ashy gray powder.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2025
Definition of petrifies

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“Castrates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/castrates. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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