To remove the testicles (and sometimes penis) of a male animal or to render the testicles unfunctional.
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Examples for "castrate "
Examples for "castrate "
1 If introduced, the ban would effectively castrate the powerful devices there.
2 The effect was to castrate both Shevardnadze and his plans for the pipeline.
3 She's got to throttle back, or she'll castrate everything in the domestic niche.
4 Provisional Clinical Opinion For men with CRPC, a castrate state should be maintained indefinitely.
5 It's probably because I know how to castrate farm animals.
1 Since Paul can't eliminate the Fed outright, he's trying to emasculate it.
2 Gender questions emasculate , if her publishers will excuse the terms, criticism.
3 But, it is said, that the fine arts soften and emasculate the mind.
4 Where it should be nurturing great talent it prefers instead to emasculate it.
5 Do not emasculate , as that would be a waste of force.
1 He'd had the vet geld the horse when it was a yearling.
2 What I need to do is geld him and send him to the Wall.
3 I had to hang the one and geld the other.
4 It's more like what happens sometimes after they geld hosses.
5 A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.
1 She said the fund can not be used to euthanise or desex domestic cats.
2 The council says the money can't be used to euthanise cats or desex privately-owned ones.
3 One of the main reasons to desex at a younger age is to prevent unplanned litters.
4 The council said the money can not be used to euthanise cats or desex privately-owned ones.
5 The team of volunteers will be there to desex animals, provide parasite treatments, and vaccinate dogs against the parvovirus.
6 Stanford said applicants must be able to demonstrate they have a programme in place to take in abandoned cats to desex and re-home them.
7 Photo: 123rf Applications to a $100,000 fund are now open, with the money to be used to desex and re-home the animals.
8 He said they were either euthanised or desexed and adopted.
9 Suppose this horse was desexed at two years old.
10 She also paid to have street dogs desexed .
11 Spartan had been microchipped already but Mr Berry had put off desexing because of the expense, he said.
12 Domestic cats were more likely to wander further and fight more often if they are not desexed , she said.
13 QUESTION 2 We bought a beautiful little pup during lockdown and are not sure when to get her desexed .
14 The optimum age for desexing dogs remains a hot topic in the veterinary world and is a complex issue.
15 The age of desexing larger-breed dogs may be delayed until they are more mature and allow for bone growth to occur.
16 Cheltenham Cat Rescue was raising money to help pay vets fees and also to kickstart a multilingual awareness campaign about desexing cats.
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