gelded

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
gelded
    adj 1: (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut
           horse" [syn: {cut}, {emasculated}, {gelded}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Geld \Geld\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gelded} or Gelt (?); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Gelding}.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan.
   gilde, Sw. g[aum]lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG.
   galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.]
   1. To castrate; to emasculate.
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   2. To deprive of anything essential.
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            Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.   --Shak.
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   3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book,
      or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "gelded":
      acarpous, arid, barren, castrated, celibate, childless,
      debilitated, demasculinized, desert, desolate, devitalized,
      drained, dried-up, dry, effeminized, emasculate, emasculated,
      enervated, eunuchized, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt,
      impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune,
      leached, lustless, marrowless, menopausal, nerveless, nonfertile,
      nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, pithless, sine prole,
      sinewless, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile,
      unfruitful, unmanned, unnerved, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific,
      unsexed, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue

    

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