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castrate
Overview of noun castrate
The noun castrate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. eunuch, castrate -- (a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem")
Overview of verb castrate
The verb castrate has 4 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. emasculate, castrate -- (deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law")
2. bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten -- (edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel")
3. emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise -- (remove the testicles of a male animal)
4. alter, neuter, spay, castrate -- (remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun castrate
1 sense of castrate
Sense 1
eunuch, castrate
=> man, adult male
=> male, male person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun castrate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun castrate
1 sense of castrate
Sense 1
eunuch, castrate
=> man, adult male
Antonyms of noun castrate
Member Holonyms of noun castrate
Substance Holonyms of noun castrate
Part Holonyms of noun castrate
Member Meronyms of noun castrate
Substance Meronyms of noun castrate
Part Meronyms of noun castrate
Meronyms of noun castrate
Holonyms of noun castrate
Attributes of noun castrate
Derived Forms of noun castrate
1 sense of castrate
Sense 1
eunuch, castrate
RELATED TO>(verb) castrate#3
=> emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
Domain of noun castrate
Domain Terms of noun castrate
Familiarity of noun castrate
castrate used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun castrate
1 sense of castrate
Sense 1
eunuch, castrate
> man, adult male
HAS INSTANCE=> Adam
HAS INSTANCE=> Cain
HAS INSTANCE=> Abel
HAS INSTANCE=> Seth
=> Black man
=> white man
=> yellow man
=> babu, baboo
=> bachelor, unmarried man
=> bey
=> boy
=> boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain, young man
=> exboyfriend
=> bull, bruiser, strapper, Samson
=> dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse
=> ejaculator
=> Esquire, Esq
=> eunuch, castrate
=> father figure, father surrogate
=> father-figure
=> fellow, dude, buster
=> galoot
=> geezer, bloke
=> gentleman
=> grass widower, divorced man
=> guy, cat, hombre, bozo
HAS INSTANCE=> Ham
=> Herr
=> Hooray Henry
=> housefather
=> hunk
=> ex-husband, ex
=> inamorato
=> iron man, ironman
=> ironside
HAS INSTANCE=> Japheth
=> junior
=> adonis
=> middle-aged man
=> Monsieur
=> old boy, old man
=> old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah
=> patriarch, paterfamilias
=> Peter Pan
=> posseman
=> Senhor
=> shaver
HAS INSTANCE=> Shem
=> signor, signior
=> signore
=> sir
=> stiff
=> stud, he-man, macho-man
=> Tarzan
=> widower, widowman
=> womanizer, womaniser, philanderer
=> wonder boy, golden boy
=> young buck, young man
Meronyms of noun castrate
1 sense of castrate
Sense 1
eunuch, castrate
=> man, adult male
HAS PART: adult male body, man's body
HAS PART: beard, face fungus, whiskers
HAS PART: mustache, moustache
=> male, male person
HAS PART: male body
HAS PART: male reproductive system
HAS PART: prostate gland, prostate
HAS PART: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon, spermatozoan
HAS PART: flagellum
HAS PART: acrosome
HAS PART: male genitalia, male genitals, male genital organ, family jewels
HAS PART: scrotum
HAS PART: raphe, rhaphe
HAS PART: seminal duct
HAS PART: epididymis
HAS PART: vasa efferentia
HAS PART: vas deferens, ductus deferens
HAS PART: ejaculatory duct
HAS PART: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg
HAS PART: testicular artery, internal spermatic artery, arteria testicularis
HAS PART: testicular vein, vena testicularis
HAS PART: seminiferous tubule
HAS PART: epididymis
HAS PART: vasa efferentia
HAS PART: rete testis
HAS PART: vas deferens, ductus deferens
HAS PART: spermatic cord
HAS PART: male reproductive gland
HAS PART: penis, phallus, member
HAS PART: glans penis
HAS PART: vena bulbi penis
HAS PART: urethra
HAS PART: urethral orifice, external orifice
HAS PART: urethral sphincter, musculus sphincter urethrae
HAS PART: prepuce, foreskin
HAS PART: Cowper's gland, bulbourethral gland
HAS PART: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg
HAS PART: testicular artery, internal spermatic artery, arteria testicularis
HAS PART: testicular vein, vena testicularis
HAS PART: seminiferous tubule
HAS PART: epididymis
HAS PART: vasa efferentia
HAS PART: rete testis
HAS PART: vas deferens, ductus deferens
HAS PART: spermatic cord
HAS PART: vas deferens, ductus deferens
HAS PART: penis, phallus, member
HAS PART: glans penis
HAS PART: vena bulbi penis
HAS PART: urethra
HAS PART: urethral orifice, external orifice
HAS PART: urethral sphincter, musculus sphincter urethrae
HAS PART: prepuce, foreskin
HAS PART: seminal vesicle
HAS PART: male genitalia, male genitals, male genital organ, family jewels
HAS PART: scrotum
HAS PART: raphe, rhaphe
HAS PART: seminal duct
HAS PART: epididymis
HAS PART: vasa efferentia
HAS PART: vas deferens, ductus deferens
HAS PART: ejaculatory duct
HAS PART: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg
HAS PART: testicular artery, internal spermatic artery, arteria testicularis
HAS PART: testicular vein, vena testicularis
HAS PART: seminiferous tubule
HAS PART: epididymis
HAS PART: vasa efferentia
HAS PART: rete testis
HAS PART: vas deferens, ductus deferens
HAS PART: spermatic cord
HAS PART: male reproductive gland
HAS PART: penis, phallus, member
HAS PART: glans penis
HAS PART: vena bulbi penis
HAS PART: urethra
HAS PART: urethral orifice, external orifice
HAS PART: urethral sphincter, musculus sphincter urethrae
HAS PART: prepuce, foreskin
HAS PART: male internal reproductive organ
HAS PART: male chest
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun castrate
Grep of noun castrate
castrate
Antonyms of verb castrate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb castrate
4 senses of castrate
Sense 1
emasculate, castrate
=> weaken
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 2
bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
=> abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 3
emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
=> sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
=> operate on, operate
=> treat, care for
Sense 4
alter, neuter, spay, castrate
=> sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
=> operate on, operate
=> treat, care for
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb castrate
2 of 4 senses of castrate
Sense 3
emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
=> caponize, caponise
=> geld, cut
Sense 4
alter, neuter, spay, castrate
=> defeminize, defeminise
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb castrate
4 senses of castrate
Sense 1
emasculate, castrate
=> weaken
Sense 2
bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
=> abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
Sense 3
emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
=> sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
Sense 4
alter, neuter, spay, castrate
=> sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
'Cause To' of verb castrate
Derived Forms of verb castrate
3 of 4 senses of castrate
Sense 2
bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
RELATED TO>(noun) castration#3
=> expurgation, castration
Sense 3
emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
RELATED TO>(noun) castration#1
=> castration, emasculation
RELATED TO>(noun) castrate#1
=> eunuch, castrate
Sense 4
alter, neuter, spay, castrate
RELATED TO>(noun) castration#2
=> castration
RELATED TO>(noun) neutering#1
=> neutering, fixing, altering
RELATED TO>(noun) neuter#1
=> neuter
Domain of verb castrate
Domain Terms of verb castrate
Familiarity of verb castrate
castrate used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Sample Sentences of verb castrate
4 senses of castrate
Sense 1
emasculate, castrate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 4
alter, neuter, spay, castrate
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb castrate
4 senses of castrate
Sense 1
emasculate, castrate
> weaken
=> de-energize, de-energise
=> break
=> devitalize, devitalise
=> shake
=> depress
=> unbrace
=> etiolate
=> cripple, stultify
=> dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
=> rarefy, attenuate
=> blunt
=> temper, season, mollify
=> enfeeble, debilitate, drain
=> enervate
=> dampen
=> neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate
=> emasculate, castrate
=> wash out
Sense 2
bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
> abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
=> bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
=> digest, condense, concentrate
Sense 3
emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
> sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
=> alter, neuter, spay, castrate
=> emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
=> vasectomize, vasectomise
Sense 4
alter, neuter, spay, castrate
> sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
=> alter, neuter, spay, castrate
=> emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
=> vasectomize, vasectomise
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb castrate
Sense 1
emasculate, castrate
=> weaken
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Sense 2
bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
=> abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
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Sense 3
emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise
=> sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
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Sense 4
alter, neuter, spay, castrate
=> sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
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Grep of verb castrate
castrate
Grep of adj castrate
castrated
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