eunuchize

eunuchize
/yooh"neuh kuyz'/, v.t., eunuchized, eunuchizing.
to castrate; emasculate.
Also, esp. Brit., eunuchise.
[1625-35; EUNUCH + -IZE]

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  • eunuchize — eu·nuch·ize …   English syllables

  • eunuchize — ˌkīz transitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) Etymology: Late Latin eunuchizare, from Greek eunouchizein, from eunouchos eunuch + izein ize : emasculate …   Useful english dictionary

  • castrate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. emasculate, unman; geld. See impotence. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. emasculate, sterilize, asexualize, desex, mutilate, cut, spay, geld, neuter, unman, steer, caponize, effeminize, eunuchize, deprive… …   English dictionary for students

  • alter — Synonyms and related words: abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, alter into, ameliorate, assuage, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, become, better, bottom out, box in, break, break up, castrate, change, change into, checker,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • castrate — Synonyms and related words: alter, beat down, bleed, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, change, clamp down on, coerce, compel, cow, cripple, daunt, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, despotize, devitalize, disable, domineer, domineer over, drain,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • emasculate — Synonyms and related words: alter, castrate, cripple, debilitate, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, devitalize, disable, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, enervate, etiolate, eunuchize, exhaust, fix, forceless, geld, hamstring, hobble,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • fix — Synonyms and related words: KO, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accord, accustom, adapt, adjust, adjust to, affix, afford proof of, aim, aim at, align, allocate, allot, alter, amend, anchor, annex, antitoxin, apportion, approach, arrange,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • geld — Synonyms and related words: alter, castrate, change, demasculinize, desexualize, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, eunuchize, fix, mutilate, neuter, sissify, soften, spay, unsex, womanize …   Moby Thesaurus

  • neuter — Synonyms and related words: Laodicean, alter, animate, anythingarian, apathetic, asexual, capon, castrate, castrated, centrist, change, cold, common gender, contemplative, cool, cut, desex, desexualize, do nothing, doctor, dormant, emasculate,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • castrate — v 1. asexualize, emasculate, ovariecto mize, oophorectomize; alter, (of horses) geld, Inf. fix, Inf. cut, (of female animals) spay, (of fowl) capon, New England (of animals) deacon; eunuchize, unman, effeminize, womanize. 2. expurgate, purge,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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