castrate

Noun	1.	castrate - a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem" eunuch adult male, man - an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
Verb	1.	castrate - deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" emasculate weaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body"
	2.	castrate - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, contract, reduce, cut - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
	3.	castrate - remove the testicles of a male animal demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate caponise, caponize - convert a cock into a capon geld, cut - cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses); "the vet gelded the young horse" desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized"
	4.	castrate - remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" neuter, spay, alter defeminise, defeminize - remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized"

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