castration

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castration (enc)

Noun	1.	castration - neutering a male animal by removing the testicles emasculation altering, neutering, fixing - the sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering"
	2.	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" surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
	3.	castration - the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work expurgation deletion - the act of deleting something written or printed bowdlerisation, bowdlerization - the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent

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