castrate

/kæsˈtɹeɪt/

Etymology

Likely from an unattested sense of Middle English castrat (“(adjective) castrated; (noun) a castrated animal”), substantivized borrowing of Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of castrō (“to prune, amputate, castrate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix)).

castrate means A castrated man; a eunuch. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 76 out of 100.

noun

A castrated man; a eunuch.“The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor.”

verb

To remove the testicles of a person or animal.“If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.”
To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.