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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Castrate \Cas"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Castrated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Castrating}.] [L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to
     castrate, asin to Skr. [,c]astra knife.]
     1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to
        alter.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or
        objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to
        expurgate.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the
              following letter, which I have castrated in some
              places.                               --Spectator.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  castrated \castrated\ adj.
     deprived of reproductive organs or sexual attributes.
  
     Syn: altered, neutered, unsexed, fixed.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  castrated
       adj : deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes [syn: {unsexed}]
             [ant: {uncastrated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "castrated":
     asexual, bad, butchered, cold, crippled, cut short, debilitated,
     demasculinized, devitalized, disabled, docked, effeminized,
     emasculate, emasculated, enervated, eunuchized, frigid, frustrated,
     game, garbled, gelded, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped,
     hashed, hobbling, impotent, incapacitated, lame, limping, lopped,
     lustless, maimed, mangled, marrowless, mutilated, nerveless,
     neuter, neutral, pithless, sexless, sinewless, spavined, truncated,
     unmanned, unnerved, unsexed, unsexual
  
  

















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