Castrate definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CASTRATE, v.t. 1. To geld; to deprive of the testicles ... is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem" [syn: eunuch, castrate] v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" [syn: emasculate, castrate] 2: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" [syn: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten] 3: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise] 4: remove the ovaries of; "Is your ...
... from e and masculus, a male. See Male.] 1. To castrate; to deprive a male of certain parts which characterize the ... strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" [syn: emasculate, castrate] 2: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise] Merriam Webster's transitive verb (-lated; -lating) Etymology ... spirit ; weaken 2. to deprive of virility or procreative power ; castrate 3. to remove the androecium of (a flower) in the ... deprive of force or vigour; make feeble or ineffective. 2 castrate. --adj. 1 deprived of force or vigour. 2 castrated. 3 ... masculine.] 1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld. 2. To deprive of ...
... pret. gelded or gelt; pp. gelded or gelt. 1. To castrate; to emasculate. 2. To deprive of any essential part. 3 ... akin to Old English gelde sterile Date: 14th century 1. castrate 2. to deprive of a natural or essential part < sick ... usu. a male animal) of the ability to reproduce. 2 castrate or spay; excise the testicles or ovaries of. Etymology: ME ... or Gelt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gelding.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. g["a]lla, and cf ... not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.] 1. To castrate; to emasculate. 2. To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and ... Obs.] --Dryden. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms v. a. Castrate, emasculate, glib, deprive of virility. Moby Thesaurus alter, castrate, ...
... over the eyes. [Not in use.] GLIB, v.t. To castrate. 1. To make smooth. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj ... Glib Glib, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] --Shak. Webster's 1913 Dictionary ... ready in speech, of a ready tongue. II. v. a. Castrate, geld, emasculate, deprive of virility. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar ...
... ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" [syn: alter, neuter, spay, castrate] Merriam Webster's verb (altered; altering) Etymology: Middle English, from ... 1. to make different without changing into something else 2. castrate, spay intransitive verb to become different Synonyms: see change • alterability ... intr. make or become different; change. 2 tr. US & Austral. castrate or spay. Derivatives: alterable adj. alteration n. Etymology: ME f ... renewed, become, better, bottom out, box in, break, break up, castrate, change, change into, checker, chop, chop and change, circumscribe, come ...
... ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" [syn: alter, neuter, spay, castrate] Merriam Webster's I. adjective Etymology: Middle English neutre, from ... spayed or castrated animal III. transitive verb Date: 1903 1. castrate, alter 2. to remove the force or effectiveness of Oxford ... worker bee or ant. b a castrated animal. --v.tr. castrate or spay. Etymology: ME f. OF neutre or L neuter ... ADJ Moby Thesaurus Laodicean, alter, animate, anythingarian, apathetic, asexual, capon, castrate, castrated, centrist, change, cold, common gender, contemplative, cool, cut, desex ...
... at right angles. The ecliptic cuts the equator. 8. To castrate. To cut across, to pass by a shorter course, so ... turn sharply on pitching. 20 intr. sl. run. 21 tr. castrate. --n. 1 an act of cutting. 2 a division or ... to cut the hair; to cut the nails. 4. To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse. 5. To form ... to cut the hair; to cut the nails. 4. To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse. 5. To form ...
... 1828 Dictionary SPAY, v.t. [L. spado, a gelding.] To castrate the female of a beast by cutting and by taking ... ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" [syn: alter, neuter, spay, castrate] Merriam Webster's transitive verb (spayed; spaying) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French espeer to pierce, castrate, from espee sword, from Latin spatha sword — more at spade ... the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal). Webster's 1913 Dictionary Spay Spay, n ...
... plural castrati) Etymology: Italian, from past participle of castrare to castrate, from Latin Date: 1763 a singer castrated before puberty to ... or alto voice. Etymology: It., past part. of castrare: see CASTRATE Webster's 1913 Dictionary Castrato Cas*tra"to, n. [L., properly p. p. of castrare. See Castrate.] A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his ...
... 1. to deprive of manly vigor, fortitude, or spirit 2. castrate, emasculate Synonyms: see unnerve Oxford Reference Dictionary v.tr. (unmanned ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms v. a. 1. Emasculate, castrate, geld, deprive of virility. 2. Dishearten, discourage, make despondent, deject ... break down, bring low, bring to terms, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, castrate, clamp down on, coerce, compel, conquer, cow, cramp, cripple, crush ...
... b. restore, cure < the doctor fixed him up > c. spay, castrate 7. a. to get even with b. to influence the ... carbon dioxide) by forming a non-gaseous compound. 16 tr. castrate or spay (an animal). 17 tr. arrest changes or development ... bump off, buy, buy off, carve, case, case harden, cast, castrate, catch, celestial navigation, cement, certify, change, chart, chisel, chronometer, cinch ...
... or Gelt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gelding.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. g["a]lla, and cf ... not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.] 1. To castrate; to emasculate. 2. To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and ...
... with ropes which are not parallel. SWIG, v.t. To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tight with a ... be silent, sw[=i]can to evade, escape.] 1. To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a ...