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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Castrate \Cas"trate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Castrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Castrating}.] [L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to castrate, asin to Skr. [,c]astra knife.]
1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.
My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. --Spectator.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
castrated \castrated\ adjective deprived of reproductive organs or sexual attributes.
Syn: altered, neutered, unsexed, fixed. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
castrated
adjective: deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes [syn: {unsexed}] [ant: {uncastrated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "castrated": asexual, bad, butchered, cold, crippled, cut short, debilitated, demasculinized, devitalized, disabled, docked, effeminized, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, eunuchized, frigid, frustrated, game, garbled, gelded, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, hashed, hobbling, impotent, incapacitated, lame, limping, lopped, lustless, maimed, mangled, marrowless, mutilated, nerveless, neuter, neutral, pithless, sexless, sinewless, spavined, truncated, unmanned, unnerved, unsexed, unsexual
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