castrate

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I know it's dangerous and pointless, but if you don't let me do it, you may as well castrate me.

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Quick take

a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of castrate gathered in one view.

noun

a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem"

verb

deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"

verb

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for castrate.

noun

a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem"

verb

deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"

verb

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

See also: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten

verb

remove the testicles of a male animal

verb

remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"

Example sentences

I know it's dangerous and pointless, but if you don't let me do it, you may as well castrate me.

And I find it sad that someone who does is still willing to castrate his own freedom for no gain whatsoever.

So then she teased him about his daughter, to see if he would virtually castrate himself to impress her.

Good thing he didn't chemically castrate anyone, they'd never pardon that.

This is the main area where I suspect Google's greater reliance on clouds leads them to castrate their operating systems.

Boomers had it and continue to. Whats left for the younger generation is a world of fear and terror, where standing outside of the yellow marked line can and most likely will castrate you.

The post is simply suggesting Nintendo to castrate itself of a core competitive advantage of theirs.

Do yourself a favour and consider the mobile platforms as a blank canvas to explore rather than a castrated desktop experience.

But to eliminate the will altogether, to suspend each and every affect, supposing we were capable of this -- what would that mean but to castrate the intellect?

What's the benefit in that?Ultimately you'd need to castrate all the men so no-one can have a gendered experience of sex. Remove women's wombs and force all children to be gestated ex utero so they don't have a gendered experience with a parent that will alter their behaviour.

In 1936, RCA hired the former head of the FCC and assigned him the task of assuring that the FCC assign spectrum in a way that would castrate FMprincipally by moving FM radio to a different band of spectrum.

Mandatory minimums castrate the judicial system and give too much control to a legislature that is largely bought and paid for by the military/prison/school/election/industrial complex.

Unlike surgical castration, where the testicles or ovaries are removed through an incision in the body, chemical castration does not actually castrate the person, nor is it a form of sterilization.

Yeah, there would still be scalability issues, but the change wouldn't castrate the notation as a whole, it would allow a very smooth transition to traditional notation, and at the very least those circle things are ignorable by professionals.