Usually means: Remove testicles to prevent reproduction.
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  1. castrate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. castrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. castrate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. castrate: Vocabulary.com
  5. Castrate, castrate: Wordnik
  6. castrate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. castrate: Wiktionary
  8. castrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. castrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. castrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. castrate: Dictionary.com
  12. castrate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Castrate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Castrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. castrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. castrate: Rhymezone
  17. Castrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. castrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. castrate: Free Dictionary
  20. castrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  22. castrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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  1. castrate: Encyclopedia

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  3. castrate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See castrated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A castrated man; a eunuch.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the testicles of a person or animal.
verb:  (transitive, uncommon) To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.

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