Word Meanings - CASTRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of castrating.

CASTRATE
1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter. 2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent
CASTRATION
The act of castrating.
CASTRATO
A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. Swift.
SEMICASTRATE
To deprive of one testicle. -- Sem`i*cas*tra"tion,n.