Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of removing the testicles.

    Kastrierung, Hodenentfernung

    кастра́цияkastrácija

    neutering a male animal by removing the testicles

  2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The exclusion of mathematics from the field of culture is like intellectual castration.

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  2. Chemical castration could cause cancer.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
act of removing the testicles:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act of removing the testicles:

Forms

plural: castrations
Singularcastration
Pluralcastrations

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • neutering a male animal by removing the testicles:emasculation
  • the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work:expurgation

Word family

18 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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