- castration, emasculation - neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
--1 is a kind of neutering, fixing, altering
Derived form: verb castrate3 - castration - 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"
--2 is a kind of operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
Derived form: verb castrate4 - expurgation, castration - the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
--3 is a kind of deletion
--3 has particulars: bowdlerization, bowdlerisationDerived form: verb castrate2