Example Sentences

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She was also impressed with the opening scene, in which a rancher castrates a bull.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2021

His wife, infinitely more resolute, castrates him verbally: “What, quite unmann’d in folly?”

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2016

Cordyceps fungus, or the neuro-hijacking barnacle of crabs, Sacculina, who castrates the female crab and takes advantage of its parenting.

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2013

At day six, the castrates are permanent transsexuals.

From Time Magazine Archive

In castrates there is an increase in the size and number of the cells of the anterior pituitary, again a compensation or substitution effect.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.