Reverse Dictionary: CASTRATE

ADJECTIVES
► ADDED TO THE LIST castrated → L19 sl.
► ALTERATED castrated → 1968 Amer. dial.
► CUT castrated → 1624
► CUTTED castrated; wounded, mutilated, etc. by cutting; carved, sculptured, engraved → 1438 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DEKNACKERED castrated; emasculated → 20C
► EXTESTICULATE castrated → 1884
► MUTILATED castrated → 1598 obs.
► SCRIBB’D AND LIBB’D castrated → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UNPAVED castrated → a1616 obs.
► UNSEMINARED castrated; deprived of virility → a1616 obs.

NOUNS
► MUTILATION castration → 1728 obs.
► NEUTER a castrated animal → 1900
► NUT-CUTTING castration → 1968 US sl.
► RIG an animal that has been imperfectly castrated, or whose genitals are not properly developed; a male animal with only one testicle → 1475
► RIGGOLD an animal that has been imperfectly castrated, or whose genitals are not properly developed, esp. a male animal → 1410 Eng. dial.
► RIGGOT an animal that has been imperfectly castrated, or whose genitals are not properly developed, esp. a male animal → 1559 Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CASTRATE a castrated man, a eunuch → 1639 obs.
► CASTRATO a male singer castrated in boyhood so as to retain a soprano or alto voice → 1763
► LIBBER one who castrates; a gelder → 1825 Sc.
► LIBSTER a castrator → 1825 Sc.
► NUTTER a person who castrates animals → 1968 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► ALTER to castrate, to spay → E19 Aust. & NZ
► ARRANGE to castrate → 20C US euphemism
► CAPSIZE to castrate → 1912 Amer. dial.
► CARVE to castrate a cock → 1586 obs.
► CASTERATE to castrate → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CASTERIZE to castrate → 1973 Amer. dial.
► CASTERMINE to castrate → 1949 Amer. dial.
► CHANGE to castrate → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CLAMP to castrate a young animal by means of a clamp or rubber band → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CLIP to castrate → 1949 Amer. dial. euphemism
► CRIMP to castrate or sterilize an animal → 1967 Amer. dial.
► CUT to castrate → 1465
► DE-BALL to castrate, lit. and fig. → 1961 sl.
► DE-BOLLOCK to castrate, usually in figurative sense of hurting or punishing severely → 1960s sl.
► DEHORN to castrate → 20C Amer. dial.
► DENATURE to castrate an animal → 1968 Amer. dial.
► DE-NUT to castrate → 1950 Amer. dial.
► DE-STONE to castrate an animal → 1969 Amer. dial.
► DOCTOR to castrate or spay an animal → 1939 euphemism
► EUNUCHATE to castrate, to make a eunuch of; to deprive of virility or generative power → 1646 obs.
► EXCHANGE to castrate → 1966 Amer. dial.
► GELD to castrate a male animal; to spay a female animal; now primarily to castrate → c1225
► HANDLE to castrate → 1949 Amer. dial. euphemism
► HARROW to castrate → 1753 obs.
► KNACKER to castrate → M19 Aust. sl.
► LIB to castrate → 14C Eng. dial.
► LINE UP to castrate → 1949 Amer. dial.
► MAIM to castrate → ?1300s euphemism
► NUT to castrate → 1916 Amer. dial.
► SATURNIZE to castrate → 1829
► SWIG to castrate a ram by tying the scrotum tightly with a string → 1663
► TRIM to castrate → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TWITCH to castrate an animal by means of a cord looped over the testicles and drawn tight → 1798 obs.
► UNGEAR to castrate, to geld → 1788 Sc. obs.
► UNSEX to castrate → 20C US medical usage
► WORK ON to castrate → 1944 Amer. dial.