castrate
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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
His formative influences included his grandfather Lawrence Preston Gise, who is usually described in press accounts as Bezos would’ve known him – a semi-retired rancher showing his grandson how to castrate bulls.
From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2019
We could catch most of the pigs we needed to mark and castrate without ever getting in reach of the old hogs.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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