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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Geld \Geld\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Gelded} or Gelt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gelding}.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. g["a]lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG. galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.]
1. To castrate; to emasculate.
2. To deprive of anything essential.
Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. --Shak.
3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gelded
adjective: (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut horse" [syn: {cut}, {emasculated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "gelded": acarpous, arid, barren, castrated, celibate, childless, debilitated, demasculinized, desert, desolate, devitalized, drained, dried-up, dry, effeminized, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, eunuchized, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, leached, lustless, marrowless, menopausal, nerveless, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, pithless, sine prole, sinewless, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unmanned, unnerved, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsexed, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue
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