GELDED Synonyms: 116 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in castrated

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verb

past tense of geld

as in undermined

to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality by the time of the fourth rewrite, the screenplay had pretty much been gelded of all originality

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Recent Examples of gelded

Verb

For the second time this season, the Red Raiders gelded the Cougars. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Dec. 2025

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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

Definition of emasculated

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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

Definition of castrated

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

Definition of altered

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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

Definition of exhausted

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Lower-ticket maintenance items have held steadier in sales, which can help to prop up the top line, but the per-store productivity weakened even where top-line sales looked flat, Graff said.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026
The region’s long investment in coal and steel became a trap once the economic basis for those industries weakened.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of weakened

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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

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