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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
geld . - adjective
Castrated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
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Examples
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I heard it from two women and was pointed to a couple of web sites where posters discussed the use of "gelded" as reflecting and feeding a nasty impression of Ms Clinton as a "castrating bitch" to put it bluntly.
Mark Penn's Earlier Version Of 3 A.M. Ad Was Negative Direct Hit On Obama 2009
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He said that Gibson had "gelded" himself by agreeing to the multiple interviews format.
Obama on Olbermann was much worse than I'd originally thought. Ann Althouse 2008
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Moreover, "gelded" youth are much more amenable to the Hell-fire and damnation sermons of Evangelical preachers, with their otherworldly cult of pain and suffering.
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January 29th, 2009 at 12: 58 am isn't it 'gelded'?
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January 29th, 2009 at 12: 58 am isn't it 'gelded'?
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We will also be told how the economy of Scotland, and Glasgow in particular, has been gelded by the existence of such a large public sector and its "index-linked" pensions, as if no one is entitled to such a thing these days.
A chilling and cruel tale of two cities | Kevin McKenna 2011
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At the peak of Italian opera's popularity in the 18th century, as many at 4,000 boys -- mostly from poor families -- were gelded each year and put in music conservatories for an arduous course of study.
Richard Harvell's novel about 18th-century opera, "The Bells" Nancy Robertson 2010
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At the peak of Italian opera's popularity in the 18th century, as many at 4,000 boys -- mostly from poor families -- were gelded each year and put in music conservatories for an arduous course of study.
Richard Harvell's novel about 18th-century opera, "The Bells" Nancy Robertson 2010
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Ferrari, for example, no longer builds its cars by hand, and the cars are vastly better for it, even if the mythology of the Prancing Horse gets gelded a bit.
Massive, but Not for the Masses Dan Neil 2011
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The Baby Boomer generation could thus be gelded a bit.
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