castrate

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

But alongside these essential legal updates, Thorne has revealed a way to castrate it, to remove its power.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2019

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

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 Louis Berman M.D.

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

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 ● Nov. 12, 2025

Still, many castrated household cats don’t like to share their space with others.

From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2024

A teenage boy bawling into the silence of an empty church—now that’s a pretty horrific sound, right up there with the moans of a freshly castrated hyena.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

Jason and Travis Kelce started the season talking about castrating bulls on their new podcast.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2023

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

“I bet Harriet Hageman ran around and, when they were castrating the cow, she was carrying the bucket,” Jacobson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 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

Feeding and watering and shearing and lambing and even castrating and butchering, I do all these things.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness