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castrate 音標拼音: [k'æstr ,et] vt. 閹割,刪除,去掉最重要的部分 閹割,刪除,去掉最重要的部分 castrate n 1: a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; " eunuchs guarded the harem" [ synonym: { eunuch}, { castrate}] v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; " The Senate emasculated the law" [ synonym: { emasculate}, { castrate}] 2: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; " bowdlerize a novel" [ synonym: { bowdlerize}, { bowdlerise}, { expurgate}, { castrate}, { shorten}] 3: remove the testicles of a male animal [ synonym: { emasculate}, { castrate}, { demasculinize}, { demasculinise}] 4: remove the ovaries of; " Is your cat spayed?" [ synonym: { alter}, { neuter}, { spay}, { castrate}] neuter \ neu" ter\, v. t. To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; -- in male animals, to { castrate}; in female animals, to { spay}. [ PJC]
Castrate \ Cas" trate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Castrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Castrating}.] [ L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to castrate, asin to Skr. [, c] astra knife.] 1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. [ 1913 Webster] My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. -- Spectator. [ 1913 Webster] 80 Moby Thesaurus words for " castrate": alter, beat down, bleed, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, change, clamp down on, coerce, compel, cow, cripple, daunt, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, despotize, devitalize, disable, domineer, domineer over, drain, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, empty, enervate, enslave, etiolate, eunuchize, exhaust, fix, geld, grind, grind down, hamstring, henpeck, hobble, incapacitate, intimidate, keep down, keep under, lame, lord it over, maim, mutilate, neuter, oppress, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, press heavy on, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, sissify, soften, spay, sterilize, subjugate, suppress, terrorize, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, unnerve, unsex, unstring, walk all over, walk over, weigh heavy on, wing, womanize |
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