The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castrate \Cas"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Castrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Castrating.] [L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to castrate, asin to Skr. [,c]astra knife.]
To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
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To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.
My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places.
--Spectator.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of castrate English)
Usage examples of "castrating".
Dehorning and castrating cattle was a messy, miserable job, and a tedious one.
She'll probably end up tossing it on over her long underwear and castrating cows in it.
She visualized herself at some tony party in Beverly Hills, regaling her hostess with tales of shoveling manure, gathering eggs, castrating cowsþthat part she would embellishþand riding the range.
Dehorning and castrating cattle was a messy, miserable job, and a tedious one.
She'll probably end up tossing it on over her long underwear and castrating cows in it.
She visualized herself at some tony party in Beverly Hills, regaling her hostess with tales of shoveling manure, gathering eggs, castrating cowsþthat part she would embellishþand riding the range.
And that means shoveling cow manure, castrating bull calves and all the other necessary jobs that might interfere with your perfect manicure.
Being hunted down in the dawn by a pack of grey dragoons, each of them with a newly sharpened castrating knife in his sabretache.
The Colonel was sweating now, overwhelmed by a vision of castrating Frenchmen running wild inside the crumbling fort.
They don't think about the castrating, dehorning, vaccinating, doctoring, and feeding--not to mention all the grief they give ya in between.