castrate
/kæsˈtɹeɪt/US/ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/
castrate noun: a castrated man; a eunuch.
Noun
castrate (plural castrates)
Verb
castrate (third-person singular simple present castrates, present participle castrating, simple past and past participle castrated)
- To remove the testicles of a person or animal.
- If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129
- To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
- To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.
- behold the Eunuch of castrated thought2002, Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis, Methuen, →ISBN, page 40
castrate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
castrate in Tamil
- ஆண்மை நீக்கு, காயடி, விதையடி, விரைவாங்கு, நலந்தட்டு
castrate in Urdu
- آختہ کرنا
castrate in Malayalam
- നിർവീര്യനാക്കുക, ഉടയ്ക്കുക, വന്ധീകരിക്കുക
castrate in Kannada
- ಹಿಡಿಕುಬಡಿ, ನಿರ್ವೀರ್ಯಗೊಳಿಸು, ಹಿಡಮಾಡು, ಬೀಜ ಒಡೆ
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- castrate in Tagalog
- basigin
- castrate in Arabic
- خَصَى ḵaṣā
- castrate in Malay
- kembiri, kasi
- castrate in Indonesian
- mengebiri
- castrate in Thai
- ตอน dtɔɔn
- castrate in Vietnamese
- thiến
Synonyms of castrate
Forms of castrate
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | castrates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | castrates |
| present participle | castrating |
| past participle | castrated |
| past | castrated |
Origin of castrate
Likely from an unattested sense of Middle English castrat (“(adjective) castrated; (noun) a castrated animal”), substantivized borrowing of Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of castrō (“to prune, amputate, castrate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix)).
Borrowed from Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of Latin castrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Displaced native geld in its broader sense.
Words formed from castrate
Words that rhyme with castrate
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- conflate
- crate
Questions about castrate
- What does castrate mean?
- Castrate means a castrated man; a eunuch.
- What is castrate in Tamil?
- Castrate in Tamil is ஆண்மை நீக்கு, காயடி, விதையடி. See Castrate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is castrate?
- Castrate can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce castrate?
- Castrate is pronounced /kæsˈtɹeɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of castrate?
- The plural of castrate is castrates.
Words near castrate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: castrate (page history and authors); castrate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); castrate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); castrate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); castrate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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