1. Deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes
   "The castrated animals were treated for 14 days with antibiotics";
   - unsexed

1. Remove the testicles of a male animal
   "They castrated the bull to make it more docile";
   - emasculate [archaic], demasculinize, demasculinise [Brit], evirate [rare]
    
2. Remove the ovaries of
   "Is your cat castrated?";
   - alter, neuter, spay
    
3. Deprive of strength or vigour
   "The Senate castrated the law";
   - emasculate
    
4. Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
   "castrate a novel";
   - bowdlerize, bowdlerise [Brit], expurgate, shorten

See also: altered, cut, emasculated, gelded, neutered, spayed

Type of: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, fix, foreshorten, reduce, shorten, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, unsex, weaken

Antonym: uncastrated

Encyclopedia: Castrated