castrate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kæsˈtɹeɪt/    美 /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A castrated man; a eunuch.
    — The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor.
动词 v.
  1. To remove the testicles of a person or animal. transitive
    — 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.
  2. To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal. transitive,uncommon
  3. To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual. figuratively,transitive

词形变化

castrates plural castrates present,singular,third-person castrating participle,present castrated participle,past castrated past

词汇关系

近义词
geld spay f neuter sterilize alter
下位词
emasculate
衍生词
castratable castratee castrater castration castratism castrative castrator castratrix hemicastrate immunocastrate semicastrate uncastrate

词源

词源 1
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)).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of Latin castrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Displaced native geld in its broader sense.
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