castrate

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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.

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times

In their heyday, Handel’s operas almost always involved castrati, singers who were castrated as boys to preserve their higher voices but still gained the full lung capacity and overall stamina of grown men.

From New York Times

They arrived to find her father at the corral branding and castrating cattle.

From Los Angeles Times

Another strategy — capturing, anaesthetizing and transporting the hippos by helicopter to a facility to be castrated — would cost at least $530,000 and take up to 52 years for eradication, the study found.

From Scientific American