castrate

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025

In 2013, he broke the ring finger on his glove hand while helping a neighbor castrate a calf.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 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

What would a society of eunuchs achieve?—But of course they are not eunuchs, in somer, but rather more comparable to preadolescents: not castrate, but latent.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin