castrate

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So Cumberbatch spent considerable time in Montana learning cowboy skills — riding, braiding rope, rolling cigarettes, even how to castrate a bull.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021

She also helped vaccinate and castrate calves on his family’s farm without any squeamishness.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

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

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