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castration   (TTS Sound)

The noun castration has 3 senses

• castration, emasculation -- (neutering a male animal by removing the testicles)


• castration -- (surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men); "bilateral castration results in sterilization")


• expurgation, castration -- (the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work)