castrate

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vt. 阉割, 删除, 使丧失力量(或效果) [医] 去生殖腺者, 阉者, 阉, 阉割

发音

UK /kæsˈtɹeɪt/
UK /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/
其它
US /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/

词形变化

castrates 复数 castrated castrates 三单 castrates castrating castrating 现在分词 castrated 过去式 castrated 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A castrated man; a eunuch.

v.
  1. 1.

    To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.

    比喻 及物
  2. 2.

    To remove the testicles of a person or animal.

    阉割

    去势

    阉

    及物
  3. 3.

    To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

eunuch

上位词 1

man
动词

同义词 10

alter shorten neuter emasculate bowdlerise bowdlerize demasculinise demasculinize expurgate spay

上位词 10

cut fix contract reduce weaken shorten sterilize abbreviate abridge desex

下位词 6

cut caponise caponize defeminise defeminize geld

词源

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)).

来源：wiktionary