castration
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kæˈstɹeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]castration (countable and uncountable, plural castrations)
- (surgery) The act of removing the testicles.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125:
- Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
- 2019, “A Rape of Sirens”, performed by Infant Annihilator, Alex Terrible:
- The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration
Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages
Probed and beaten
A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness
- (figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
Synonyms
[edit]- (surgery): orchiectomy
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]act of removing the testicles
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figurative: removal of power
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See also
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[edit]French
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Noun
[edit]castration f (plural castrations)
Further reading
[edit]- “castration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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