Castration - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|kæˈstreɪʃn|
Brit.
|kæˈstreɪʃ(ə)n|
noun
- neutering a male animal by removing the testicles (syn: emasculation)
- surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)
- surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)
bilateral castration results in sterilization
- the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work (syn: expurgation)Extra examples
Farmers castrated the bull calf.
...a movie version that castrates the hard-hitting novel...
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