gelds

Verb (1)

geld (third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded)

1. (historical) To tax geld.

Verb (2)

geld (third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded or gelt)

1. (transitive) To castrate a male (usually an animal).
   • "Poor old Topaz," said Mrs Flanders, as he stretched himself out in the sun, and she smiled, thinking how she had had him gelded, and how she did not like red hair in men.1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, pages 16–17
2. (figuratively, transitive) To suppress or severely reduce sexual desire or libido.
   • Camphor if smell'd
     A man will geld.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213
3. (figuratively, transitive) To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.

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