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self-castrated

self-castrated adjective: having removed one's own testicles.

Adjective

self-castrated (not comparable)

  1. Having removed one's own testicles.
    • He died, either killed by a boar, the symbol of winter, like Adonis, or self-castrated (like his own priests); and he bled to death at the foot of a pine tree (the pine and pine-cone being symbols of fertility).1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 23

Questions about self-castrated

What does self-castrated mean?
Self-castrated means having removed one's own testicles.
What part of speech is self-castrated?
Self-castrated is an adjective.

Words near self-castrated in the dictionary

  1. self-breeds
  2. self-build
  3. self-builds
  4. self-built
  5. self-care
  6. self-castrated
  7. self-catalysis
  8. self-catered
  9. self-catering
  10. self-catheterisation
  11. self-catheterisations

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