castration

Nouns

  • (n) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles emasculation,
  • (n) 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
  • (n) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work expurgation,

Synonyms

emasculation expurgation

Words of close approximity

castration anxiety