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How to pronounce castrate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms emasculate
Type of weaken
Type Words
Synonyms bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten
Type of abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten, abbreviate
Derivation castration
Type Words
Synonyms eunuch
Type of adult male, man
Type Words
Synonyms alter, neuter, spay
Type of fix, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualise, sterilize, desexualize
Has types defeminize, defeminise
Derivation castration, neutering
Type Words
Synonyms demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate
Type of desexualize, sterilise, desex, sterilize, fix, unsex, desexualise
Has types geld, caponise, caponize, cut
Derivation castration

Examples of castrate

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Did not veto SBOE redistricting map which was designed to castrate conservatives.
From the infowars.com
What I can't understand, why do so many males castrate themselves with junk food?
From the economist.com
Then one of Horn's co-workers and antagonists threatens to blind and castrate him.
From the time.com
Either you can rot in prison, or we'll castrate you, ruining your life either way.
From the forbes.com
But it will never be too late to financially or physically castrate these bastards.
From the guardian.co.uk
She shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and asked her sons to castrate Uranus.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He is accused of plotting to kill and castrate four people, including Justin Bieber.
From the freep.com
Konitzer has attempted to commit suicide and to castrate herself in prison.
From the sacbee.com
The bucks in such a situation will castrate each other, so it's just not a good idea.
From the swampland.time.com
More examples
  • Emasculate: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"
  • Eunuch: a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem"
  • Bowdlerize: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
  • Emasculate: remove the testicles of a male animal
  • Alter: remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
  • (castrated) deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes
  • (castration) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
  • (castration) surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men); "bilateral castration results in sterilization"
  • (castration) expurgation: the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work