castrate

1. 1.

   a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction

   “eunuchs guarded the harem”

   Synonymseunuch

   Broaderman

Other forms of castrate

plural

castrates·

past tense

castrated·

present participle

castrating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about castrate

What does castrate mean?

castrate means "deprive of strength or vigor". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in castrate?

castrate has 2 syllables: cas-trate. The stress falls on "cas". In IPA it is /ˈkæˌstɹeɪt/.

What is another word for castrate?

Close synonyms include emasculate, bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is castrate a common word?

castrate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with castrate?

10 words rhyme with castrate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.