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neuter

verb as in remove sex organs

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In Issie Lapowsky’s article for Protocol, she goes over the debates that neutered Do Not Track and how essentially the same thing is going on now with initiatives that seek to replace third-party cookies.

A righteous uproar ensued, with complaints that the website diminished the labor of these bloggers, stole their ad revenue, and neutered their IP, all without consent.

From Eater

She brought back some of the agreeable ones for adoption and started capturing and neutering others.

In the past decade, she said, 380 of the island’s cats have been neutered by her organization, Veterinarians on the Road.

By the 1970s, spay and neuter technology became more widely used, and animal-welfare groups like the Humane Society of the United States promoted the motto of “legislate, educate, sterilize” to reduce the number of unwanted animals.

From Time

She says the Humane Society would like to enforce spay and neuter laws to the point where there would be no purebred dogs left.

It seeks to neuter the criticism of any lurking Paltrow naysayers wishing to transfer their negativity to Lively.

In a land where resources are scarce, and spay-neuter initiatives are only starting to make inroads, this is not surprising.

Take that away, or neuter the violence too much, and enrollment drops.

Pro: “My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working & nothing after all.”

The word mistranslated “greater,” πλεῖον, is neuter and cannot be applied to a man.

In my rendering of this the pronoun "his" must be understood in its old English latitude as either neuter or masculine.

The neuter of Myrmica rubra, another ant, has no ocelli or stemmata, although the male and female are provided with them.

Mtzner translates quia situm est in malo, treating ille as a neuter noun, evil.

To grumble, as Cox pointed out to Mrs. Bouncer, is a verb neuter meaning to complain without a cause.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to neuter, such as: castrate, mutilate, spay, sterilize, alter, and change.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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