Noun castration has 3 senses
  1. castration, emasculation - neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
    --1 is a kind of neutering, fixing, altering
    Derived form: verb castrate3
  2. 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
  3. expurgation, castration - the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
    --3 is a kind of deletion
    --3 has particulars: bowdlerization, bowdlerisation
    Derived form: verb castrate2
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