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castrated

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for castrated.

Editorial note

I'm just saying philosophically if you're going to say it is pass-by-pointer w/ castrated pointers is that any different than pass-by-reference with castrated references?

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Quick take

Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).

Meaning at a glance

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

adjective

Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for castrated.

Example sentences

1

I'm just saying philosophically if you're going to say it is pass-by-pointer w/ castrated pointers is that any different than pass-by-reference with castrated references?

2

Compare it to a couple of years ago, even a $100 Android phone felt castrated back then.

3

That explains why these kind of news have been entirely absent from slashdot (with the exception of that one heavily castrated entry).

4

But then, I haven't measured: it's easy enough to do an A-B test with a castrated version and see?

5

That's not as bad as being chemically castrated, but I think the situation bears some similarities.

6

The mechanic/feel is okay, but the castrated layout is nuts.

7

When I think of those three in the middle ages I think of Lithuanians being captured and castrated by Jews then sold into slavery to Muslims.

8

It's a reasonable question to ask about the other gay men who were imprisoned or chemically castrated or otherwise persecuted but who are ignored by the various apologies and pardons.

9

One guy we hired for a media encoding job early on was such a loser he actually tried to blackmail us until our CEO verbally castrated him.

10

Afaik it was the second home computer to get it, first being castrated low cost piece of shit Sinclair QL (Linus owned one), and the first one to use it by default.

11

Conformity castrated industrial designers.

12

(See Haskell.) Module systems aren't much more than castrated object systems, so I don't see a real benefit of picking some half-assed module system over a first-class object system.

Quote examples

1

Breaking Bad and Fight Club come to mind, where "castrated" protagonists fight back for their manhood...

2

Underneath that photo is the caption: "Carlos Valderrama may be the only vet to have castrated a hippo in the wild"

3

I doubt one's "outgrowth of certain branches of math" is the reason math as taught to non-math majors is a castrated mess it is.

4

I'm pretty sure that was a rhetorical technique designed to make people think "okay yes, I clearly do recognize that justice demands limits here." As an aside: did anyone else immediately think of acid baths rather than hormone pills back when they first read the phrase "chemically castrated"?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use castrated in a sentence?

I'm just saying philosophically if you're going to say it is pass-by-pointer w/ castrated pointers is that any different than pass-by-reference with castrated references?

What does castrated mean?

Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).

What part of speech is castrated?

castrated is commonly used as adjective.