Castration

Cas-tra′tion

,

Noun.

[L.

castratio

; cf. F.

castration

.]

The act of castrating.

Castration

CASTRATION

,

Noun.

The act of gelding; the act or practice of making eunuchs; the act of taking away the obscene parts of a writing; the act of taking out a leaf or sheet of a book. In botany, the cutting off of the anthers, or tops of the stamens of flowers, before the ripening of the pollen.

castration

English

Noun

castration ‎(countable and uncountable, plural castrations)

The act of removing the testicles.
(figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.

Translations

act of removing the testicles

Arabic: إِخْصَاء m ‎(ʾiḵṣāʾ)
Bulgarian: кастра́ция f ‎(kastrácija), скопяване n ‎(skopjavane)
Catalan: castració f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 宮刑 (zh), 宫刑 (zh) ‎(gōngxíng), 去勢 (zh), 去势 (zh) ‎(qùshì), 閹割 (zh), 阉割 (zh) ‎(yāngē)
Czech: kastrace (cs) f
Dutch: castratie (nl) f
Finnish: kastraatio (fi), kastrointi (fi), kuohinta (fi), kuohiminen (fi)
French: castration (fr) f
German: Kastrierung f, Hodenentfernung f
Greek: ευνουχισμός (el) m ‎(evnouchismós)

Hebrew: סירוס m ‎(sirus')
Italian: castrazione (it) f
Japanese: 去勢 ‎(kyosei), 宮刑 ‎(kyūkei)
Korean: 거세 ‎(geose) (去勢 (ko))
Latvian: kastrācija f, kastrēšana f
Malay: pengasian, pengembirian
Portuguese: castração (pt) f
Russian: кастра́ция (ru) f ‎(kastrácija)
Scottish Gaelic: spothadh m
Spanish: castración (es) f
Swedish: kastrering c
Vietnamese: sự thiến (vi)

figurative: removal of power

Bulgarian: обезсилване (bg) n ‎(obezsilvane)
Greek: ευνουχισμός (el) m ‎(evnouchismós)

Japanese: 去勢 ‎(kyosei)

Derived terms

chemical castration

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French

Noun

castration f ‎(plural castrations)

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