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geld n. 稅,貢賦,支付款
vt. 去勢,閹割,剝奪 稅,貢賦,支付款去勢,閹割,剝奪 geld v 1: cut off the testicles ( of male animals such as horses); " the vet gelded the young horse" [ synonym: { geld}, { cut}] Geld \ Geld\, n. [ AS. gild, gield, geld, tribute, payment, fr. gieldan to pay, render. See { Yield}.] Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.[ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Note: This word occurs in old law books in composition, as in danegeld, or danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc. [ 1913 Webster]
Geld \ Geld\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Gelded} or Gelt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. { Gelding}.] [ Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. g[ aum] lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG. galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.] 1. To castrate; to emasculate. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To deprive of anything essential. [ 1913 Webster] Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [ Obs.] -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 18 Moby Thesaurus words for " geld": alter, castrate, change, demasculinize, desexualize, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, eunuchize, fix, mutilate, neuter, sissify, soften, spay, unsex, womanize
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