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castration
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castration
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun castration has 3 senses
- castration(n = noun.act) emasculation - neutering a male animal by removing the testicles; Array is a kind of altering, fixing, neutering
- castration(n = noun.act) Array - surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men); "bilateral castration results in sterilization" is a kind of operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
- castration(n = noun.act) expurgation - the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work; Array is a kind of deletion
Derived form verb castrate3
Derived form verb castrate4
has particulars: bowdlerisation, bowdlerization
Derived form verb castrate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
castration, n. [L. castratio; cf. F. castration.].
The act of castrating. [1913 Webster]
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