castrated

American  

[kas-trey-tid] / ˈkæs treɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. emasculated by having the testicles removed.

   Some castrated male cats will spray urine, but it is much more common in unneutered males.

2. deprived of strength, force, or effectiveness.

   She claims that the International Criminal Court is a castrated organization with no policing power.

3. Psychology. rendered impotent, literally or metaphorically, by psychological means, especially by having one’s masculinity or femininity threatened.

   The show is full of literally and figuratively castrated men, witless and robotic, while women drive the action.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of castrate.

Other Word Forms

• uncastrated adjective

Etymology

Origin of castrated

castrate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

It will be adapted from Anne Rice's 1982 novel, which is set in the 18th Century world of the "castrati" - male singing stars who were castrated to preserve their high voices.

From BBC

In their heyday, Handel’s operas almost always involved castrati, singers who were castrated as boys to preserve their higher voices but still gained the full lung capacity and overall stamina of grown men.

From New York Times

Another strategy — capturing, anaesthetizing and transporting the hippos by helicopter to a facility to be castrated — would cost at least $530,000 and take up to 52 years for eradication, the study found.

From Scientific American

“The more time that passes, the more hippos will either have to be culled, castrated or captured.”

From Scientific American

In tight quarters, the smallest calves were branded, castrated and vaccinated.

From New York Times