Definition of castrate Castrate

/kæˈstɹejˌt/ - [kastreyt] - cas•trate

We found 15 definitions of castrate from 6 different sources.

What does castrate mean?

Noun
castrate - a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem"
		eunuch
		adult male, man game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"
Verb
castrate - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
		bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten
		abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten, shorten, contract, reduce, cut shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
castrate - remove the testicles of a male animal
		emasculate, demasculinize, demasculinise
		desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix direct one's libidinous urges into another direction
		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"
castrate - remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
		alter, neuter, spay
		desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix direct one's libidinous urges into another direction
		defeminise, defeminize remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)
castrate - deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"
		emasculate
		weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"

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castrate (v. t.)
To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
castrate (v. t.)
To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.

castrate
A man whose testicles (and sometimes penis) have been cut off.
castrate
To remove the testicles (and sometimes penis) of a male animal or to render the testicles unfunctional.
castrate
To remove the ovaries of.
castrate
To deprive of strength or vigor.

castrate
kas′trāt, v.t. to deprive of the power of generation, to remove the testicles, geld, emasculate: to take from or render imperfect.—adj. Cas′trated, expurgated.—ns. Castrā′tion, gelding, expurgation; Castrato (kas-trä′tō), a male singer castrated in boyhood so as to preserve a soprano or alto voice:—pl. Castra′ti. [L. castrāre, -ātum.]