Castrate: alternatives and connections

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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of Cut

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Fixed; solidified.

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To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

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A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

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To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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To castrate, as a fowl.

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of Cut

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Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

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The act of castrating.

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The act of castrating.

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The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.

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The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.

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of Spay

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of Spay

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

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A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some…

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To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

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Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).

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