Explore Castrated through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like altered or neutered. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Castrated meaning
Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).
Synonyms of Castrated
Using Castrated
- The main meaning on this page is: Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).
- Useful related words include: unsexed, altered, neutered, cut.
- In the example corpus, castrated often appears in combinations such as: castrated and, was castrated, and castrated.
Context around Castrated
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Castrated
- In this selection, "castrated" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, illegally, practically, blinded, male, probably and bull stand out and add context to how "castrated" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a non castrated male horse and arthur blinded castrated and then. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "castrated" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with castrated
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Giffin, p. 431 * Gelding : A castrated male horse of any age. (11 words)
According to Doedon, they also branded calves, gave them vaccinations and castrated bull calves. (14 words)
Ensminger, p. 422 * Stallion : A non-castrated male horse four years old and older. (14 words)
To tame them to the yoke, (i) they are castrated and (ii) the dividing muscle between their two nostrils is cut with a precision and a rope is put across. (30 words)
The practice was largely abolished in Christianized areas centuries ago (with the aberrant exception of choir boys illegally castrated in Italy during the 16th- to 19th-century period). (28 words)
Technically beaten or strategically castrated militarily Boko Haram has proven to be a formidable fighting force with the fiscal, military and organisational wherewithal to withstand the federal assault. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Between 2011 and 2019, four males were castrated and two females were sterilised, but this did little to slow the hippos' progress.
Speaking at Bloomsbury House, London, he said: 'Punk has been castrated and neutered by the corporate sector and the state.
The practice was largely abolished in Christianized areas centuries ago (with the aberrant exception of choir boys illegally castrated in Italy during the 16th- to 19th-century period).
Only recently, he practically castrated the Ayalas and Manny Pangilinan, names that make the Philippine economy ring.
Ask any soldier what he most doesn’t want, and he’ll tell you being paralyzed, blinded, and castrated, probably in that order.
But this sends the message: you are really male, we don’t accept you, you should be castrated.
In the olden days, our palaces in the South-West had a retinue of the castrated called eunuchs, who kept the harem of the Obas.
The opportunity of going through counselling and guidance may be given to paedophiles and rapists, with the understanding that they will be castrated.
To tame them to the yoke, (i) they are castrated and (ii) the dividing muscle between their two nostrils is cut with a precision and a rope is put across.
According to Doedon, they also branded calves, gave them vaccinations and castrated bull calves.
He once ordered 22 captive knights be locked in a castle and starved to death and had his nephew Arthur blinded, castrated and then killed.
Just imagine how pathetic lions look in captivity when they’ve been brought up and castrated to be foolish and docile.
Technically beaten or strategically castrated militarily Boko Haram has proven to be a formidable fighting force with the fiscal, military and organisational wherewithal to withstand the federal assault.
A decadent but technologically advanced African culture keeps either uneducated or castrated whites as slaves.
Although a myth was created six months after the events that Everest was castrated, the historical record does not support it.
Despenser was then condemned to hang as a thief, be castrated, and then to be drawn and quartered as a traitor, his quarters to be dispersed throughout England.
Ensminger, p. 422 * Stallion : A non-castrated male horse four years old and older.
Giffin, p. 431 * Gelding : A castrated male horse of any age.
He also exhumed the skull of the dog that castrated him and uses it as part of his rituals.
He was castrated citation before the Taliban dragged him to death behind a truck in the streets. citation His brother Shahpur Ahmadzai was given the same treatment.
Common combinations with castrated
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- castrated and 9×
- was castrated 6×
- and castrated 4×
- be castrated 4×
- were castrated 3×
- been castrated 3×
- castrated in 3×
- castrated the 2×
- gelding castrated 2×
- castrated male 2×