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单词 castrate
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Definition of castrate in English:

castrate

verb ˈkastreɪtkaˈstreɪtˈkæˌstreɪt
[with object]
  • 1Remove the testicles of (a male animal or man).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Men, in particular, have abhorred the idea of castrating their dogs, as if it were some kind of crime against male dominance.
    • At birth, calves were identified with a numbered ear tag, they were weighed, sex was recorded, and male calves were castrated.
    • Some castrate their dogs just because they are energetic.
    • Male calves were castrated either at birth, at time of initial vaccination, or at weaning.
    • The mouse was also castrated, so that it would produce a higher level of the hormone that switches on sperm production.
    • Adrian had a sudden fear that the man might borrow his accomplice's knife and castrate him, or at the very least stab him.
    • The best day, by far, was watching the vet castrate a colt, but for some strange reason, Peter doesn't like me to talk about that too explicitly.
    • She could do anything he could, from riding and roping to branding the cattle and castrating the bulls.
    • The Emperor of China would employ eunuchs, castrated men, as guards and servants in his Palace.
    • Other bulls are castrated, and this seems to be simply based on the individual preference of their owner, although a castrate will grow larger and hence become more valuable.
    • Cronus used a sickle to castrate his father Uranus, and he is often portrayed throughout literature as having a long beard.
    • His desire for power is so great that he castrates himself in order to attain invincible and mystical powers.
    • Nine cats were castrated males; three cats were females: two of them were spayed.
    • Then at 18 she met a group of eunuchs - castrated men who dressed as women and sang and danced for a living.
    • Such an income would not only have benefited the castrato but, more importantly, the family that castrated him.
    • We later found out that the song was about a woman who got revenge on a rapist by castrating him.
    Synonyms
    neuter, geld, cut, emasculate, desex, sterilize, unman, remove the testicles of
    North American &amp Australian alter
    informal doctor, fix
    rare evirate, caponize, eunuchize
    1. 1.1 Deprive of power, vitality, or vigour.
      a restrictive classicism would have castrated England's literature
noun ˈkastreɪtkaˈstreɪtˈkæˌstreɪt
  • A man or male animal whose testicles have been removed.

    young human castrates, or eunuchs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Atrazine is a potent endocrine disrupter that chemically castrates and feminizes amphibians and other wildlife.
    • Agueda Yzquierdo, for instance, could recall the castration of Juan de Aleson, the full castrate who later married Maria de Legaria.
    • Pope Sixtus V unequivocally prohibited marriage to castrates in 1587 when he responded to the Spanish papal nuncio's question about several women in Madrid who had married eunuchs.
    • Historians interested in the development of musical castrati in Europe often point to Islamic Spain as the source of early castrates and the medieval practice of castration.
    • As will be shown below, the castrate, the non-man, played an important role in the ordinary figuring of masculinity and manhood in the Spanish village.
    • The castrates were, however, deadly serious in their pursuit of a paradise on earth, and Meek says he came across a history of them in a Parisian bookshop.
    • Other bulls are castrated, and this seems to be simply based on the individual preference of their owner, although a castrate will grow larger and hence become more valuable.
    • These were cases whose basic question was anatomy - regarding hermaphrodites, castrates, and impotent men - and they reveal much about anxieties then prevalent concerning sexual categorization.
    • As demonstrated in the case of castrates, manhood clearly depended on physical attributes: being a sexually intact male.
    • Regardless of their infamous local reputations, or perhaps to restore them, these castrates occasionally attempted to marry.
    • He demonstrated that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that chemically castrates and feminizes male amphibians.
    • The seventy-year-old father, Matheo, personally warned the local priest that his son, Domingo, at the age of twenty-seven, was a castrate.

Derivatives

  • castrator

  • noun
    • Although their roles as parasitic castrators has been documented, relatively little is known about the biology of ciliate parasites in mayflies.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Indeed, some parasites are castrators, completely destroying the host's reproductive machinery.

Origin

Mid 16th century (earlier (Middle English) as castration): from Latin castrare.

Rhymes

abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight
 
 

Definition of castrate in US English:

castrate

verbˈkaˌstrātˈkæˌstreɪt
[with object]
  • 1Remove the testicles of (a male animal or man).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Emperor of China would employ eunuchs, castrated men, as guards and servants in his Palace.
    • She could do anything he could, from riding and roping to branding the cattle and castrating the bulls.
    • His desire for power is so great that he castrates himself in order to attain invincible and mystical powers.
    • Some castrate their dogs just because they are energetic.
    • Then at 18 she met a group of eunuchs - castrated men who dressed as women and sang and danced for a living.
    • Nine cats were castrated males; three cats were females: two of them were spayed.
    • Men, in particular, have abhorred the idea of castrating their dogs, as if it were some kind of crime against male dominance.
    • The mouse was also castrated, so that it would produce a higher level of the hormone that switches on sperm production.
    • Such an income would not only have benefited the castrato but, more importantly, the family that castrated him.
    • Cronus used a sickle to castrate his father Uranus, and he is often portrayed throughout literature as having a long beard.
    • We later found out that the song was about a woman who got revenge on a rapist by castrating him.
    • At birth, calves were identified with a numbered ear tag, they were weighed, sex was recorded, and male calves were castrated.
    • Adrian had a sudden fear that the man might borrow his accomplice's knife and castrate him, or at the very least stab him.
    • Other bulls are castrated, and this seems to be simply based on the individual preference of their owner, although a castrate will grow larger and hence become more valuable.
    • The best day, by far, was watching the vet castrate a colt, but for some strange reason, Peter doesn't like me to talk about that too explicitly.
    • Male calves were castrated either at birth, at time of initial vaccination, or at weaning.
    Synonyms
    neuter, geld, cut, emasculate, desex, sterilize, unman, remove the testicles of
    1. 1.1 Deprive of power, vitality, or vigor.
      the nation is a castrated giant, afraid to really punish subversives
nounˈkaˌstrātˈkæˌstreɪt
  • A man or male animal whose testicles have been removed.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Atrazine is a potent endocrine disrupter that chemically castrates and feminizes amphibians and other wildlife.
    • Agueda Yzquierdo, for instance, could recall the castration of Juan de Aleson, the full castrate who later married Maria de Legaria.
    • Regardless of their infamous local reputations, or perhaps to restore them, these castrates occasionally attempted to marry.
    • As demonstrated in the case of castrates, manhood clearly depended on physical attributes: being a sexually intact male.
    • Other bulls are castrated, and this seems to be simply based on the individual preference of their owner, although a castrate will grow larger and hence become more valuable.
    • The seventy-year-old father, Matheo, personally warned the local priest that his son, Domingo, at the age of twenty-seven, was a castrate.
    • As will be shown below, the castrate, the non-man, played an important role in the ordinary figuring of masculinity and manhood in the Spanish village.
    • The castrates were, however, deadly serious in their pursuit of a paradise on earth, and Meek says he came across a history of them in a Parisian bookshop.
    • Historians interested in the development of musical castrati in Europe often point to Islamic Spain as the source of early castrates and the medieval practice of castration.
    • Pope Sixtus V unequivocally prohibited marriage to castrates in 1587 when he responded to the Spanish papal nuncio's question about several women in Madrid who had married eunuchs.
    • These were cases whose basic question was anatomy - regarding hermaphrodites, castrates, and impotent men - and they reveal much about anxieties then prevalent concerning sexual categorization.
    • He demonstrated that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that chemically castrates and feminizes male amphibians.

Origin

Mid 16th century (earlier ( Middle English) as castration): from Latin castrare.

 
 
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