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castration
/kæˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/
noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
chemical, intellectual
VERB + CASTRATION
cave, like
CASTRATION + NOUN
bulls, cancer
Definitions
noun
1
The act of removing the testicles.
Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages Probed and beaten A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness
2
Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
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Synonyms
noun — the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
- expurgation
noun — neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
Wiktionary02
The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages Probed and beaten A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in
Wiktionary03
The exclusion of mathematics from the field of culture is like intellectual castration.
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Chemical castration could cause cancer.
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