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gelding

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verb

present participle of geld
as in castrating
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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“Gelding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gelding. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.

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