castration
noun
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neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
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Sense 2 noun
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
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Sense 3 noun
the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | demasculinize |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | neutering |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | neuter |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | surgical operation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bowdlerize |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | deletion |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bowdlerization |