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GELD
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Irregular inflected form: gelt
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they geld ... he / she / it gelds
Past simple: gelded
Past participle: gelded
-ing form: gelding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
Example:
the vet gelded the young horse
Synonyms:
cut; geld
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "geld" is one way to...):
castrate; demasculinise; demasculinize; emasculate (remove the testicles of a male animal)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
gelding (castrated male horse)
