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[syn: cut, emasculated, gelded]
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gelded
adj 1: (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut
horse" [syn: cut, emasculated, gelded]
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