castrating

Verb

castrate (third-person singular simple present castrates, present participle castrating, simple past and past participle castrated)

1. (transitive) 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
2. (transitive, uncommon) To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.
   • behold the Eunuch of castrated thought2002, Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis, Methuen, →ISBN, page 40

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