Skip to main content

castrated

/kas-trey-tid/US // ˈkæs treɪ tɪd //

被阉割的,被阉割过的,被阉割了,被阉割

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : emasculated by having the testicles removed: Some castrated male cats will spray urine, but it is much more common in unneutered males.
    • : deprived of strength, force, or effectiveness: She claims that the International Criminal Court is a castrated organization with no policing power.
    • : Psychology. rendered impotent, literally or metaphorically, by psychological means, especially by having one’s masculinity or femininity threatened: The show is full of literally and figuratively castrated men, witless and robotic, while women drive the action.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women.

  • Franco plays Benjy, the mentally handicapped—and eventually, castrated—member of the Compson clan.

  • But the ending scene where the guy gets castrated is pretty impressive, because the guys playing the natives are real natives.

  • In one sickening final detail, Joe Christmas is castrated even before he is dead, his blood soaking his attackers.

  • She may also feel symbolically castrated by the loss of her life savings—a situation that would make anyone rabid.

  • You will learn that the Lords have strangely castrated the new Militia Bill.

  • Fie, fie upon the flaccid, castrated century, that has no other use than to chew over again the deeds of the past.

  • There they also sold rabbits, hares, deer, and little dogs which are raised for eating and castrated.

  • I know one who in a frenzy of unhappiness seized a razor and castrated himself.

  • On the other hand, the castrated male animal is thoroughly suited to the task of drawing the wagon.