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Synonyms for castrated


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kas-treyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæs treɪt



Définition of castrated

Origin :
  • 1610s (implied in castrated), back-formation from castration (q.v.), or from Latin castratus, past participle of castrare. The figurative sense is attested earlier (1550s). Related: Castrating.
  • adj emasculated
Example sentences :
  • How comes it that the editions since 1740 have been so castrated ?
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 » by Various
  • If one of them be castrated when young, he will not develop as well as the other one.
  • Extract from : « Self Knowledge and Guide to Sex Instruction » by T. W. Shannon
  • Whether or not the tenor is castrated, he sings like a eunuch.
  • Extract from : « Painted Veils » by James Huneker
  • He should then be castrated, and fattened with the old ewes.
  • Extract from : « Buffon's Natural History. Volume V (of 10) » by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
  • Before the kids are allowed to go out with the flock the males should be castrated.
  • Extract from : « Practical Angora Goat Raising » by C. P. Bailey
  • But in Bontoc the boar not intended for breeding is castrated.
  • Extract from : « The Bontoc Igorot » by Albert Ernest Jenks
  • It is there said that the castrated males also cast their horns, but rarely before they are nine years old.
  • Extract from : « Lachesis Lapponica » by Carl von Linn
  • There they also sold rabbits, hares, deer, and little dogs which are raised for eating and castrated.
  • Extract from : « South American Fights and Fighters » by Cyrus Townsend Brady
  • I know one who in a frenzy of unhappiness seized a razor and castrated himself.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society » by Upton Sinclair
  • Few of the French diligence and farm horses, and scarcely any of the Oriental, are ever castrated.
  • Extract from : « Domestic Animals » by Richard L. Allen

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