castrate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: castrate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for castrate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
castrate n a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem" Synonym(s): eunuch, castrate v deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" Synonym(s): emasculate, castrate edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" Synonym(s): bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten remove the testicles of a male animal Synonym(s): emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" Synonym(s): alter, neuter, spay, castrate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Castrate \Cas"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Castrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Castrating}.] [L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to castrate, asin to Skr. [87]astra knife.] 1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter. 2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. --Spectator.