castrate

Another contract would provide funding to DonkeyLand to castrate 100 donkeys within a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

“I said, ‘Ben, I’m going to tell you something: Keep this one ’cause you’ll never find another one who will castrate a calf and ride a motorcycle,’” Ms. Carson recalled.

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

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

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.

Gem was gelded, or castrated, as a young horse, a common practice for competition horses, because it generally makes them calmer, safer and more manageable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Female hamadryas baboons given hormonal contraception lived 29 percent longer, while castrated males lived 19 percent longer.

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 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

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

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

He cataloged it: “braiding rope, working with the cattle, castrating — braiding rope while smoking a cigarette, incredibly difficult!”

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

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