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单词 gelding
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gelding

noun

geld·​ing ˈgel-diŋ How to pronounce gelding (audio)
1
: a castrated animal
specifically : a castrated male horse
2
archaic : eunuch

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The Grade 3 $200,000 Whitmore, honoring the gelding trained by native Arkansan Ron Moquett, remains on the schedule March 18 at six furlongs. Arkansas Online, 29 July 2022 Lenny came to Rhode Island by way of Connecticut in 2012, when Julie and Jack Kliever needed a horse after the sudden and devastating death of Ted, half of a two-brother Percheron gelding team. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022 Lenny, also a Percheron gelding, is tall (17.2 hands in horse terms) and gleaming white with kind, dark eyes, and thick white lashes. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022 The Preakness Stakes will be contested for the l47th time, and around 6 p.m. CDT Saturday, a colt, a filly or a gelding will be the winner of one of the United States’ most prestigious thoroughbred events. Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 16 May 2022 Cypress Creek owner Kevin Moody also owns the one-eyed Kentucky Derby qualifier Un Ojo, a gelding sired by Laoban. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2022 Trainer Ricky Courville said the gelding must have aggravated the injury during weekend preparations for the Preakness. Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2022 The one-eyed gelding has responded well since returning to the track at Churchill Downs, assistant trainer Clay Courville said. Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2022 The horse, an unraced 4-year-old gelding, collapsed with a catastrophic injury to his right front ankle. John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Old Norse geldingr, from gelda

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Medical Definition

gelding

noun

geld·​ing ˈgel-diŋ How to pronounce gelding (audio)
: a castrated animal
specifically : a castrated male horse

gelding 1 of 2

noun

as in mare

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • mare
  • colt
  • stallion
  • filly
  • foal
  • equine
  • steed
  • pony
  • nag
  • trotter
  • racehorse
  • mustang
  • palomino
  • roan
  • chestnut
  • bronco
  • equid
  • sorrel
  • galloper
  • mount
  • pinto
  • black
  • bay
  • warhorse
  • dun
  • saddle horse
  • prancer
  • quarter horse
  • packhorse
  • dobbin
  • cow pony
  • cob
  • buckskin
  • skewbald
  • hackney
  • hack
  • workhorse
  • cutting horse
  • skate
  • charger
  • courser
  • jade
  • plug

gelding

2 of 2

verb

present participle of geld
as in castrating
to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality by the time of the fourth rewrite, the screenplay had pretty much been gelded of all originality

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • castrating
  • undermining
  • exhausting
  • weakening
  • draining
  • wearing
  • dehydrating
  • damping
  • petrifying
  • lobotomizing
  • burning out
  • debilitating
  • wearing out
  • enervating
  • desiccating
  • devitalizing
  • dampening
  • deadening
  • discouraging
  • enfeebling
  • sapping
  • fatiguing
  • tuckering (out)
  • doing in
  • disheartening
  • daunting
  • dispiriting
  • demoralizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • bracing
  • stirring
  • charging
  • quickening
  • stimulating
  • invigorating
  • rousing
  • energizing
  • electrifying
  • galvanizing
  • enlivening
  • arousing
  • lifting
  • vitalizing
  • vivifying
  • fermenting
  • firing
  • triggering
  • exciting
  • kindling
  • inciting
  • whipping (up)
  • provoking
  • inflaming
  • fomenting
  • boosting
  • abetting
  • enflaming
  • cheering
  • instigating
  • sparking
  • resuscitating
  • inspiring
  • recharging
  • resurrecting
  • rejuvenating
  • reviving
  • reawakening
  • buoying
  • heartening
  • regenerating
  • emboldening
  • fortifying
  • renewing
  • refreshing
  • revitalizing
  • reanimating
  • rekindling
  • reawaking
  • reactivating
  • reenergizing
  • re-energizing
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