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词汇 evirate
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Definition of evirate in English:

evirate

verb ˈɛːvɪreɪtˈiːvɪreɪt
[with object]rare

  • 1Castrate (a man or male animal).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the age of eighteen he evirated himself, thus hoping to open the pathway to Christian perfection.
    • Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
    • The unmoved Bottai notes that one of the bodies shows 'an enormous, bloodied gash: they have evirated him'.
    • In breeding, some evirate the foal while sucking.
    • The mob had attempted to mutilate and evirate the manly figure
    Synonyms
    neuter, geld, cut, emasculate, desex, sterilize, unman, remove the testicles of
    1. 1.1 Deprive (a man) of his male role or identity; emasculate.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He did not know that a man's character dwindles into pusillanimity and cowardice, when, he is evirated by an operation totally different.
      • Their minds are debased and evirated by effeminacy, lasciviousness, and fondness for loose pleasures.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin evirat-, from the verb evirare (from e-, expressing a change of state, + vir 'man'): see -ate3.
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