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castrate

verb as in remove sexual organs

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It will be adapted from Anne Rice's 1982 novel, which is set in the 18th Century world of the "castrati" - male singing stars who were castrated to preserve their high voices.

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Another contract would provide funding to DonkeyLand to castrate 100 donkeys within a year.

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"They would strip us naked. They would Taser us. They would hit us in a sensitive place. They would tell us 'We will castrate you'," he said.

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"Life just feels grey. It's, like, castrated my emotions," Kyle says.

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Trump was symbolically castrated before an audience of tens of millions of people by Harris when she defeated him during their first debate in September.

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

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