castrate
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The anxiety of influence can trigger hysterical pastiche or castrate an author’s creativity.
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 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
“He said, ‘You know how to castrate a zebra?’ and I said, ‘Well, I never have but it looks like a striped horse to me.’
From Washington Times • Oct. 21, 2018
Mr. Callicrate has the luxury of raising cattle the way he does because he invented a contraption to castrate bulls humanely.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2018
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
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