GELT Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

geld

verb

ˈgeld

as in to undermine

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 geld Those scenarios are plausible because college and pro sports are loaded with examples of teams gelding themselves to keep a star player happy. —

Mac Engel april 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026 By gelding a choirboy, the Church would suspend his gossamer vocal cords so that a child’s song could live on in a man’s throat, backed, crucially, by a man’s powerful lungs. —

Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026 Gegen and his 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding One Question raced through the course in 44.686 seconds for the win. —

Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025 An Oldenburg gelding in the horse barn, which is paved with rubber tiles; another stall contains a 1900s French armchair, a 19th-century table, and bird prints. —

Anita Sarsidi, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for geld

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Kirk had disappeared from their feeds, and Erika Kirk had gone viral for the wrong reasons—taking the stage at her husband’s memorial service amid pyrotechnics and attempting her own campus tour, undermining her image as a Christian trad wife whose priorities were her family and her home.

— Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
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.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 22 June 2026