castrate
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She also helped vaccinate and castrate calves on his family’s farm without any squeamishness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
The anxiety of influence can trigger hysterical pastiche or castrate an author’s creativity.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2020
“Lay people can castrate and dehorn, but they don’t always recognize if an animal is sick,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2020
But alongside these essential legal updates, Thorne has revealed a way to castrate it, to remove its power.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2019
And if you asked him to, he could geld a pony or castrate a pig with the same kind of delicate authoritative finesse Michelangelo must have used carving his Pietd.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
She was also impressed with the opening scene, in which a rancher castrates a bull.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
His wife, infinitely more resolute, castrates him verbally: “What, quite unmann’d in folly?”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016
Cordyceps fungus, or the neuro-hijacking barnacle of crabs, Sacculina, who castrates the female crab and takes advantage of its parenting.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2013
At day six, the castrates are permanent transsexuals.
From Time Magazine Archive
In castrates there is an increase in the size and number of the cells of the anterior pituitary, again a compensation or substitution effect.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
"He offered to be chemically castrated," said Marcia.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Gem was gelded, or castrated, as a young horse, a common practice for competition horses, because it generally makes them calmer, safer and more manageable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Female hamadryas baboons given hormonal contraception lived 29 percent longer, while castrated males lived 19 percent longer.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026
Still, many castrated household cats don’t like to share their space with others.
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2024
A castrated man; especially, one of those who were employed as harem attendants or functionaries in certain Oriental courts.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Squeal Award got its name from Ms. Ernst’s 2014 campaign video where she said she grew up on a farm castrating pigs, and vowed to make Washington’s big-spenders shriek the same way.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
“I bet Harriet Hageman ran around and, when they were castrating the cow, she was carrying the bucket,” Jacobson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
Phil may act tough castrating a bull with his bare hands, but he becomes vulnerable when he and Peter share a few friendly, tender moments.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022
False teeth, a scorpion in formaldehyde and a lamb castrating tool were among the strangest items dropped in a charity's donation boxes this year.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2021
A prison report said, “He does high grade work caring for stock, and is able to do such operations as opening of abscesses and castrating of animals.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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