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| Main Entry: |
castrated
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emasculated |
| Synonyms: | altered, desexed, effeminate, emasculate, fixed, impotent, unmanned |
| Main Entry: | sexless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | asexual |
| Synonyms: | agamous, castrated, epicene, neuter, unisex |
| Main Entry: | alter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sterilize animal |
| Synonyms: | caponize, castrate, change, desexualize, emasculate, fix, geld, mutilate, neuter, spay, unsex |
| Main Entry: | maim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cripple, put out of action |
| Synonyms: | batter, blemish, break, castrate, crush, damage, deface, disable, disfigure, dismember, disqualify, gimp, hack, hamstring, harm, hog-tie, hurt, impair, incapacitate, injure, lame, mangle, mar, massacre, maul, mayhem, mutilate, spoil, truncate, warp, wound |
| Antonyms: | aid, cure, heal, help, repair |
| Main Entry: | neuter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove sex organs |
| Synonyms: | alter, castrate, change, desexualize, doctor, dress, fix, geld, make barren, make impotent, make infertile, make sexless, mutilate, spay, sterilize, unsex |
| Main Entry: | sterilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make clean or unproductive |
| Synonyms: | alter, antisepticize, autoclave, castrate, change, clean, decontaminate, desexualize, disinfect, emasculate, fix, fumigate, incapacitate, make sterile, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitize, spay |
| Antonyms: | dirty |
| Main Entry: | spay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sterilize |
| Synonyms: | alter, antisepticize, autoclave, castrate, change, clean, decontaminate, desexualize, disinfect, emasculate, fix*, fumigate, geld, incapacitate, make sterile, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitize, unsex |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsex |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sterilize |
| Synonyms: | alter, antisepticize, autoclave, castrate, change, clean, decontaminate, desexualize, disinfect, emasculate, fix*, fumigate, geld, incapacitate, make sterile, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitize, spay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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