CASTRATE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

2.
v.

To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.