castrate
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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
You are not the first person that comes to mind when casting a cowboy, and you trained extensively to portray Phil and his life accurately, even learning to brand and castrate cattle.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
The anxiety of influence can trigger hysterical pastiche or castrate an author’s creativity.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2020
“Lay people can castrate and dehorn, but they don’t always recognize if an animal is sick,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2020
They would not castrate or shear animals unless the moon was right, and they would not gather crops or save next year’s seeds unless the moon dictated.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
She was also impressed with the opening scene, in which a rancher castrates a bull.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
His wife, infinitely more resolute, castrates him verbally: “What, quite unmann’d in folly?”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016
Cordyceps fungus, or the neuro-hijacking barnacle of crabs, Sacculina, who castrates the female crab and takes advantage of its parenting.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2013
At day six, the castrates are permanent transsexuals.
From Time Magazine Archive
The skull and brain of castrates, animal and human, is smaller than the average.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
"He offered to be chemically castrated," said Marcia.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
He told the investor he saved money by buying cheaper but harder-to-handle male calves that haven’t been castrated and having his own team do it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Some historical records, including data from Korean Eunuchs in the pre-19th century Chosun Dynasty, suggest that castrated men lived about 18 percent longer than men who were not castrated.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026
Still, many castrated household cats don’t like to share their space with others.
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2024
A castrated man; especially, one of those who were employed as harem attendants or functionaries in certain Oriental courts.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
They arrived to find her father at the corral branding and castrating cattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
He describes his experience of castrating a hippo in the wild.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022
The Squeal Award got its name from Ms. Ernst’s 2014 campaign video where she said she grew up on a farm castrating pigs, and vowed to make Washington’s big-spenders shriek the same way.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
Phil may act tough castrating a bull with his bare hands, but he becomes vulnerable when he and Peter share a few friendly, tender moments.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022
A prison report said, “He does high grade work caring for stock, and is able to do such operations as opening of abscesses and castrating of animals.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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