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evirating

evirating is the present participle and gerund of evirate.

Meaning of evirate

Verb

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

  1. 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...
  2. To render weak or unmanly.

Questions about evirating

What is evirating the present participle and gerund of?
Evirating is the present participle and gerund of evirate.

Words near evirating in the dictionary

  1. eviphidid
  2. eviphidids
  3. evirate
  4. evirated
  5. evirates
  6. evirating
  7. eviration
  8. Eviron
  9. Evis
  10. evisa
  11. evisas

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