Neuter vs. Castration: Know the Difference

Neither masculine nor feminine in gender.

To remove the testicles of (a male); geld or emasculate.

Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs.

To remove the ovaries of (a female); spay.

Having undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs

To deprive of virility or spirit; emasculate.

Having pistils and stamens that are nonfunctional or absent.

An individual who is incapable of reproduction as a result of removal, destruction, or inactivation of the gonads.

Castrated or spayed. Used of animals.

(surgery) The act of removing the testicles.

Androgynous or asexual.

(figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.

(Archaic) Taking no side in a dispute; neutral.

The act of castrating.

The neuter gender.

Neutering a male animal by removing the testicles

A neuter word.

Surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men);

A neuter noun.

The deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work

An androgynous or asexual person.

A castrated animal.

An insect that has undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs, such as a worker bee.

(Archaic) One that is neutral in a dispute.

To castrate or spay.

To render ineffective or powerless

Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

(grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.

(grammar) Intransitive.

(biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

(literary) Sexless, nonsexual.

(biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

(grammar) The neuter gender.

(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

To rid of sexuality.

Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; - in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.

A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

Remove the ovaries of;

Of grammatical gender;

Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs