evirate

UK/ˈɛvɪɹeɪt/

evirate verb: to castrate.

Verb

evirate (third-person singular simple present evirates, present participle evirating, simple past and past participle evirated)

To castrate.
- Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
- The pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate him (poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy), so apostolic and desperate a doctor is Dr. Glaston, — so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing!1846, Walter Savage Landor, edited by J. Forster, The works of Walter Savage Landor
To render weak or unmanly.

ಹಿಡಮಾಡು, ಬೀಜವೊಡೆ

third-person singular present	evirates
present participle	evirating
past participle	evirated
past	evirated

From Latin ēvirātus, perfect passive participle of ēvirō (“to emasculate”), from ē (“out of”) + vir (“man”).

What does evirate mean?: Evirate means to castrate.
What is evirate in Kannada?: Evirate in Kannada is ಹಿಡಮಾಡು, ಬೀಜವೊಡೆ. See Evirate meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is evirate?: Evirate is a verb.
How do you pronounce evirate?: Evirate is pronounced /ˈɛvɪɹeɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of evirate?: The past tense of evirate is evirated.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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