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CASTRATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does castrated mean?
• CASTRATED (adjective)
The adjective CASTRATED has 1 sense:
1. deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes
Familiarity information: CASTRATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes
Synonyms:
castrated; unsexed
Similar:
altered; neutered (having testicles or ovaries removed)
cut; emasculated; gelded ((of a male animal) having the testicles removed)
spayed ((of a female animal) having the ovaries removed)
Antonym:
uncastrated (not castrated)
Context examples
I answered that our horses were trained up, from three or four years old, to the several uses we intended them for; that if any of them proved intolerably vicious, they were employed for carriages; that they were severely beaten, while they were young, for any mischievous tricks; that the males, designed for the common use of riding or draught, were generally castrated about two years after their birth, to take down their spirits, and make them more tame and gentle; that they were indeed sensible of rewards and punishments; but his honour would please to consider, that they had not the least tincture of reason, any more than the Yahoos in this country.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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