GELD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: gelt

Present simple: I / you / we / they geld ... he / she / it gelds

Past simple: gelded

Past participle: gelded

-ing form: gelding

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)