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Castration is an English word with synonyms like emasculation or surgery. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Castration in a sentence

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Castration meaning

  1. The act of removing the testicles.
  2. Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.

Synonyms of Castration

emasculation expurgation surgical process surgical procedure surgical operation surgery operation altering fixing neutering deletion

Using Castration

  • The main meaning on this page is: The act of removing the testicles. | Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
  • Useful related words include: emasculation, expurgation, surgical process, surgical procedure.
  • In the example corpus, castration often appears in combinations such as: chemical castration, castration and, castration for.

Context around Castration

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Castration

  • In this selection, "castration" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, chemical, involving, cryptorchid, program, though and involves stand out and add context to how "castration" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 2019 involving castration by clamping and and chemical castration for convicted. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "castration" sits close to words such as aarhus, abdu and abetted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with castration

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Castration and the removal of horns must be done under anaesthesia. (11 words)

Sonny has seen combat, but he doesn’t have the stomach for castration. (13 words)

The days of chemical castration and electro-shock therapy are, thankfully, long gone. (13 words)

Ion Ciucur, 29, a Romanian national, who lives in Gretna Green, Scotland, appeared at London’s Old Bailey on Thursday, where prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC told the the offence related to two incidents in July 2019 involving “castration by clamping”. (40 words)

The nadir might have been castration, but the bottom was reached well before Claude Neal was turned into a string of just-married cans, before his humanness was mistaken for a knife block, a sheet of shooting-range paper, kindling. (40 words)

A novel about James Joyce’s troubled daughter, Lucia, and a reimagining of the chemical castration of Alan Turing have been named the joint winners of the Republic of Consciousness prize, which celebrates the best work by small publishers. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

In 2021, scientists recommended culling the hippos to prevent long-term negative effects, but other scientists are calling instead for a castration program, citing concerns over animal welfare.

Ion Ciucur, 29, a Romanian national, who lives in Gretna Green, Scotland, appeared at London’s Old Bailey on Thursday, where prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC told the the offence related to two incidents in July 2019 involving “castration by clamping”.

Sonny has seen combat, but he doesn’t have the stomach for castration.

For more than 16 years, judges in Louisiana have been allowed to order those convicted of such crimes to receive chemical castration, though that punishment is rarely issued.

He said that he was 'inspired' by internet forums dedicated to castration and that his goal was to 'help' those who approached him.

The days of chemical castration and electro-shock therapy are, thankfully, long gone.

There is a great irony, of course, that while many activists on the Left oppose voluntary chemical castration for rapists and paedophiles, they approve of similar hormone therapy treatments for teenagers wanting to change sex.

With that thought in mind, on November 4, 2014,Skipper W Spanish was trailered to Ontario Veterinary College Health Sciences Centre at University of Guelph, Ontario foran elective cryptorchid castration.

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Castration and the removal of horns must be done under anaesthesia.

He stressed that the laws against paedophiles had been toughened in Kazakhstan, with child rapists facing chemical castration.

The House adopted the motion condemning sexual violence, but rejected his prayer on castration for rapists.

A novel about James Joyce’s troubled daughter, Lucia, and a reimagining of the chemical castration of Alan Turing have been named the joint winners of the Republic of Consciousness prize, which celebrates the best work by small publishers.

But its contents were much more radical, introducing compulsory castration; a public offenders register; and much harsher sentences.

Chemical castration involves taking medication that blocks testosterone production in order to decrease the person’s sex drive.

He had been convicted under Victorian laws as a homosexual and forced to endure chemical castration.

Indonesian man Muh Aris bin Syukur was sentenced in an East Java court under the Presidential Regulation In Lieu of Law which introduced the death penalty and chemical castration for convicted paedophiles.

Patients with advanced disease often undergo androgen ablation therapy using analogs of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone or surgical castration, referred to as "androgen deprivation therapy" or "ADT".

Projects range from early detection to tackling the most aggressive and advanced form of the disease, called castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer.

She will be teaching participants the proper ways to administer vaccinations, ear tagging, ear notching, castration and proper restraint and safety while working with animals.

The nadir might have been castration, but the bottom was reached well before Claude Neal was turned into a string of just-married cans, before his humanness was mistaken for a knife block, a sheet of shooting-range paper, kindling.

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Common combinations with castration

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "castration" in a sentence?
An example: "In 2021, scientists recommended culling the hippos to prevent long-term negative effects, but other scientists are calling instead for a castration program, citing concerns over animal welfare." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "castration" from authentic English texts.
What does "castration" mean?
Castration means: The act of removing the testicles.
What are synonyms of "castration"?
Common synonyms of "castration" include: emasculation, expurgation, surgical process, surgical procedure, surgical operation, surgery, operation, altering. Plus 3 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "castration" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "castration", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.