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Definitions: Castrate |
CastrateNoun1. A man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem". Verb1. Remove the testicles of a male animal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "castrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Note: Castrate \Cas"trate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Castrated; present participle verb or noun Castrating.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Multilingual Slang | Cantonese (tsit tset). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CastrateSynonyms: eunuch (n), demasculinize (v), emasculate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate. |
Impotence | Unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix. |
Nonaddition Subtraction | Garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Castrate |
| English words defined with "castrate": alter ♦ Castrating ♦ Eunuchate ♦ Lib ♦ neuter ♦ spay. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "castrate": FARMWORKER, LIVESTOCK ♦ laborer, livestock, LAMBER ♦ ranch hand, livestock. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "castrate": Castrato ♦ Evirate. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Three men castrate a pig] / Arnoldo Van Westerhout.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactors. |
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| "Castrate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.19% of the time. "Castrate" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 76.19% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "castrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tredh (doctor, emasculate, evirate, geld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مخصي (emasculate), حذف (cancel, cancellation, delete, edit, elide, elimination, elision, miss out, omission, omit, retrench, skip, write off), تشوه (castration, deform, disfiguration, distortion, malformation), خصى (alter, emasculate, geld, neuter), شوه كتابا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | цензурирам (blue pencil, censor, red pencil), кастрат, кастрирам (cut, emasculate, evirate, fix, geld, gelt, unman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 閹 , 奄 (suddenly, to delay, to embrace), " (Castrated, Castrating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kastrovat (doctor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kastreret dyr, kastrere (alter, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate), kastrat (castrated animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | castreren (alter, castration, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate), ontmannen (emasculation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kastri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | gelda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تضعیف کردن (Unbrace), اخته کردن (Castration, Emasculate, Geld, Mutilate, Neuter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuohita (alter, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | châtrer (to castrate), castrer (to castrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kastrieren (alter, castration, geld, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate), verschneiden (blend, blending, clip, cut, cut badly, cut wrongly, geld, to cut, to hit), entmannen (emasculate, to emasculate, unman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευνουχίζω (alter, emasculate, geld, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate, unsex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לעקר (emasculate, mutilate, sterilize), לסרס (emasculate, geld, neuter), סריס (eunuch, gelded, neuter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megcsonkít (mutilate, to dismember, to maim, to mangle, to mutilate, to stump, to truncate, truncate), kiherél (emasculate, evirate, to castrate, to emasculate, to eunuchize, to geld, to swig, to unman), kasztrál (emasculate, to castrate, to emasculate, to eunuchize, to geld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengebiri (emasculate, geld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | castrare (alter, caponise, caponize, geld, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 거세하십시" (unman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | spoiyaghey (emasculate), spoiy (castration, emasculate, emasculation, geld, gelding, neuter, spay), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astratecay castrar (caponize, emasculate, eviscerate, gelding, spay). (various references) castra (alter, cut, emasculate, geld), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), scopi, jugãni (geld), expurga (bowdlerize), emascula. (various references) кастрировать (emasculate, evirate, geld, gelt, unman). (various references) uštrojiti (geld, neuter), onaj koji je kastriran, kastrirati (emasculate), štrojiti. (various references) castrar (alter, caponize, doctor, emasculate, geld, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate), castrado (castrated, emasculate, neuter), capar (alter, geld, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references) kastrera (alter, cut, emasculate, evirate, geld, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references) sansürden geçirmek (expurgate), kuvvetten düşürmek (enervate, enfeeble), kısırlaştırmak (alter, caponize, have it neutered, have it spayed, neuter, spay, sterilize, unman), iğdiş etmek (emasculate, geld), hadım etmek (alter, cut, doctor, emasculate, evirate, geld, unman). (various references) урізувати (ax, axe, curtail, lop away, lop off, pare, scant, scrimp, shorten, truncate), утинати, скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, blue pencil, boil down, cancel, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink), холостити (caponize, emasculate), "внух (androgyne, eunuch, gelding), каструвати (alter, caponize, emasculate, neuter, spay, unman), кастрована тварина (gelding, neuter, spado), кастрат (eunuch, spado, wether), каплун (capon), валах, вирізати (exscind), оскопляти, пулярка. (various references) disbaddu (geld, spay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | castrare, castro. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "castrate": castrated, castrates. (additional references) | |
Words containing "castrate": uncastrated. (additional references) | |
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"Castrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acistrate, astrate, castati, casteratie, castorate, castra, castraite, castralto, castrare, castrata, castratie, castroite, cataratie, Catraeth, Catrake, costata, Fastrada. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "castrate" (pronounced ka"strā't) |
| 5 | -s t r ā' t | administrate, demonstrate, frustrate, illustrate, magistrate, orchestrate, substrate. |
| 4 | -t r ā' t | arbitrate, concentrate, infiltrate, nitrate, penetrate, perpetrate. |
| 3 | -r ā' t | airfreight, aspirate, birthrate, calibrate, carbohydrate, celebrate, consecrate, denigrate, disintegrate, emigrate, gyrate, hydrate, immigrate, integrate, migrate, narrate, reintegrate, serrate, vertebrate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: teacarts. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: carates, scatter, teacart. | |
-2 letters: arecas, attars, caesar, carate, carats, carets, cartes, caster, caters, crates, reacts, reatas, recast, stacte, stater, strata, taster, tatars, taters, tetras, traces, tracts, treats. | |
-3 letters: aceta, acres, areas, areca, aster, attar, carat, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cesta, crate, crest, escar, races, rates, react, reata, recta, sacra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: artefacts, attachers, attackers, cabrettas, castrated, castrates, reactants, reattacks, tractates. | |
+2 letters: abstracted, abstracter, altercates, clathrates, greatcoats, reattaches, stagecraft, statecraft, transacted. | |
+3 letters: abstracters, abstractest, abstractive, aerostatics, anthracites, arctangents, articulates, backscatter, cantatrices, catastrophe, patriciates, reactivates, scattergram, secretariat, stagecrafts, statecrafts, straitlaced, strategical, tetracaines, theatricals, tradecrafts, translocate, triacetates, uncastrated, watercrafts, weathercast. | |
+4 letters: abstractable, abstractedly, abstractness, acculturates, altercations, attractances, azotobacters, backscatters, bacteriostat, catachrestic, catastrophes, contrastable, deactivators, decapitators, distractable, ectoparasite, fractionates, gnatcatchers, interactants, intercalates, intercoastal, matriculates, metathoraces, overabstract, pancreatitis, participates, particulates, ratiocinates, recantations, scatteration, scatterbrain, scattergrams, secretariats, semiabstract, separatistic, spectatorial, straitjacket, tetradrachms, tradescantia, translocated, translocates, weathercasts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 73 74 72 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ... - .-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a s t r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0073 0074 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767858684678671 |
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