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Another word for castrate

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castrate

v.

emasculate, sterilize, asexualize, desex, mutilate, cut, spay, geld, neuter, unman, steer, caponize, effeminize, eunuchize, deprive of virility, deprive of manhood, alter, fix*; see also maim, weaken 2.

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Another word for castrate

verb

To render incapable of reproducing sexually:

alter, fix, geld, neuter, spay, sterilize, unsex. See reproduction, rich

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For his terrible deeds, Gaia asked her son Cronus to castrate Uranus.
Gaia convinced Cronus to castrate Uranus.
He found it both amusing and a bit disconcerting that both Sidwell women's initial reaction was to castrate him.
These organisms live in cockles, oysters and other lamellibranchs and they so affect the gonads of these molluscs as to castrate and sterilize their host.

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