castrate

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The research depended on a collaboration with programs that trap feral cats, spay or castrate them and release them in order to reduce overpopulation and improve the health of feral cats.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021

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

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