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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
cas·trate       [kas-treyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -trat·ed, -trat·ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
2.to remove the ovaries of.
3.Psychology. to render impotent, literally or metaphorically, by psychological means, esp. by threatening a person's masculinity or femininity.
4.to deprive of strength, power, or efficiency; weaken: Without those ten new submarines, our navy will be castrated.
–noun
5.a castrated person or animal.
[Origin: 1605–15; < L castrātus ptp. of castrāre to geld, equiv. to castr- geld + -ātus -ate1]

—Related forms
cas·tra·tion, noun
cas·tra·tor, noun
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cas·trate       (kās'trāt')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   cas·trat·ed, cas·trat·ing, cas·trates
  1. To remove the testicles of (a male); geld or emasculate.
  2. To remove the ovaries of (a female); spay.
  3. To deprive of virility or spirit; emasculate.

n.   An individual who is incapable of reproduction as a result of removal, destruction, or inactivation of the gonads.


[Latin castrāre, castrāt-; see kes- in Indo-European roots.]

cas'trat·er, cas'tra·tor n., cas·tra'tion n.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
castration 
c.1420, from L. castrationem, agent noun of castrare "to castrate, prune," related to *castrum "knife," from PIE base *kes- "to cut." Hence castrato (pl. castrati), borrowed 1763 from the It. form of the word. Freud's castration complex is 1914 in Eng.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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castration

noun
1. neutering a male animal by removing the testicles 
2. surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men); "bilateral castration results in sterilization" 
3. the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work [syn: expurgation] 

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Castration

Cas*tra"tion\, n. [L. castratio; cf. F. castration.] The act of castrating.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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