CASTRATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does castrate mean?
• CASTRATE (noun)
The noun CASTRATE has 1 sense:
1. a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
Familiarity information: CASTRATE used as a noun is very rare.
• CASTRATE (verb)
The verb CASTRATE has 4 senses:
1. deprive of strength or vigor
2. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
3. remove the testicles of a male animal
4. remove the ovaries of
Familiarity information: CASTRATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• CASTRATE (noun)
Meaning:
A man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
castrate; eunuch
Context example:
eunuchs guarded the harem
Hypernyms ("castrate" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
• CASTRATE (verb)
Meaning:
Deprive of strength or vigor
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
castrate; emasculate
Context example:
The Senate emasculated the law
Hypernyms (to "castrate" is one way to...):
weaken (lessen the strength of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
bowdlerise; bowdlerize; expurgate; castrate; shorten
Context example:
bowdlerize a novel
Hypernyms (to "castrate" is one way to...):
abbreviate; abridge; contract; cut; foreshorten; reduce; shorten (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Remove the testicles of a male animal
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
demasculinize; demasculinise; emasculate; castrate
Hypernyms (to "castrate" is one way to...):
desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex (make infertile)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "castrate"):
caponise; caponize (convert a cock into a capon)
cut; geld (cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Remove the ovaries of
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
neuter; spay; castrate; alter
Context example:
Is your cat spayed?
Hypernyms (to "castrate" is one way to...):
desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex (make infertile)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "castrate"):
defeminise; defeminize (remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
