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castrate

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8 lettersPronunciation /kæsˈtɹeɪt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aacersttStarts with CEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. remove the ovaries of

Word origin

Likely from an unattested sense of Middle English castrat (“(adjective) castrated; (noun) a castrated animal”), substantivized borrowing of Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of castrō (“to prune, amputate, castrate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix)).

Used in a sentence

  • The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor.
  • If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.

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