castrate
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"Castrate" and "geld," commonly used to describe their trade by early expurgators, gave way to "purge," "prune," and "chasten."
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Castrate, kas′trāt, v.t. to deprive of the power of generation, to remove the testicles, geld, emasculate: to take from or render imperfect.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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