gelded; gelding; gelds
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: to castrate (an animal)
Some old-timers will tell you that the horse will grow better if you wait until he's older to geld him, but I've found this isn't the case …—
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: to deprive of a natural or essential part
the legislation was pretty much gelded by the time it was passed
: the crown tax paid under Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings
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by the time of the fourth rewrite, the screenplay had pretty much been gelded of all originality
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Casey Michel, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
To avoid getting into a dangerous donkey situation in the first place, geld your donkey.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 7 May 2018
He's since been gelded and will become an event horse.
—Eric Sondheimer, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
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Because Moscow retains a close partner in this effort to geld Ukraine—a vassal state that presents the model for what Putin would like to accomplish in Ukraine: Belarus.
—Casey Michel, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
To avoid getting into a dangerous donkey situation in the first place, geld your donkey.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 7 May 2018
He's since been gelded and will become an event horse.
—Eric Sondheimer, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
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“Geld.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geld. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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geld
transitive verb
: to castrate (an animal)
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