verb
- Deprive of strength or vigor.
- usage: "The Senate emasculated the law"
- synonyms: emasculate, castrate
- Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.
- usage: "bowdlerize a novel"
- synonyms: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
- Remove the testicles of a male animal.
- synonyms: emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
- Remove the ovaries of.
- usage: "Is your cat spayed"
adjective
- Deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes.
- synonyms: unsexed
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