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  • adjective deprived of reproductive organs or sexual attributes.

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  • adjective Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of castrate.

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  • adjective deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes

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Examples

  • The Church is hated for its message and must be destroyed or at least castrated, which is the intent of CT.

    The State of Connecticut attacks the Catholic Church 2009

  • Hamm even has his characters suggest that all law enforcement personnel dealing with refugee women be chemically castrated, which is a neat addition to the story in that it creates another point of conflict between the male characters' intellectual understanding of their predicament, and of the danger they pose to their loved ones, and their biological nature--ultimately, only the most conscientious and clear-eyed male character chooses the treatment***.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • Hamm even has his characters suggest that all law enforcement personnel dealing with refugee women be chemically castrated, which is a neat addition to the story in that it creates another point of conflict between the male characters' intellectual understanding of their predicament, and of the danger they pose to their loved ones, and their biological nature--ultimately, only the most conscientious and clear-eyed male character chooses the treatment***.

    "The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree Jr. Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • But Vásquez has said that expectations abroad "castrated" later novelists.

    A life in writing: Juan Gabriel Vásquez Interview by Maya Jaggi 2010

  • As for being a woman writer who treats violence that way -- well, I've heard my work called "castrated" (books have testicles?) and "squeamish," actually -- both of which make me laugh.

    Cat V. Monkey - Last Tango In Paris batwrangler 2008

  • I think the word you are looking for is "castrated" not "neutered."

    New McCain Ad: "Celebrities Don't Have To Worry About Family Budgets" 2009

  • Reportedly, few have genital modifications, although some certainly do, and some consider nirwaan "castrated" hijras to be the "true" hijras.

    Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009

  • But Clinton did something the right wing conspiracy could not do on their own: he "castrated" the NOW and pretty much prostituted the feminist movement.

    "This woman claims to be a champion for women, a women's advocate, a feminist, but look what she has done to me. Look what she has done." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Swellfoot's desire for Iona to be taken into custody and brought to him, dismembered, underscores his anxious need to reassert his phallic authority over her, to take comfort in the sight of his own phallic power as it is manifested at the site of her "castrated" body.

    Shelley 2001

  • Labour Code little ambitious and a "castrated" version [of what Necas would welcome].

    Prague Monitor 2010

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