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castrate

/kas-treyt/US // ˈkæs treɪt //UK // (kæˈstreɪt) //

阉割,阉割了,阉割了的,奄奄一息

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v.有主动词 verb
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    cas·trat·ed, cas·trat·ing.

    • : to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
    • : to remove the ovaries of.
    • : Psychology. to render impotent, literally or metaphorically, by psychological means, especially by threatening a person's masculinity or femininity.
    • : to deprive of strength, power, or efficiency; weaken: Without those ten new submarines, our navy will be castrated.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a castrated person or animal.

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Examples

  • In fact, the estrogen that they employed did worse than castrate the subject—it could act as a cerebral depressant.

  • And it seemed like Nic was trying to emasculate and castrate this supposedly clichéd action hero.

  • "If they want to castrate them, that's fine," says Debbie Savoie, vice president of the Massachusetts group Community Voices.

  • Hence it was not uncommon in Italy to castrate boys in order to fit them for soprano singers when adults.

  • I wish the British would catch and castrate every one of them, so that they may be old women in reality.

  • We sent them happy thoughts in dreams, inspired them to tame the horse, to castrate the bull, to teach the dog to guard the sheep.

  • They will not castrate cattle even through their servants, but sell the young bulls and buy oxen.

  • The Holodias will not rear male calves at their houses, and do not castrate their bulls.