neuter

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neuter2 verb [transitiveT]

1 MBHBAto remove part of the sex organs of an animal so that it cannot produce babies 阉割〔动物〕 → spay

a neutered tomcat

被阉割的公猫

2 to remove power from something or to stop something from being effective – used to show disapproval 使失去作用，使丧失效力〔含贬义〕

Plans to reform local government are designed to neuter local democracy.

改革地方政府的计划旨在压制地方民主。

Examples from the Corpus

neuter• If the source can not be located or suppressed, then at least its effect can be neutered.• The asterisk, to my mind, was emblematic of the neutering of Iron Mike.• Spaying and neutering pets is the easiest way to cure that problem.• He would keep it by neutering Steve Jobs.• I think it was the neutering that made us equal, even in the eyes of our professors.• If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before, she was smothering it with symbols now.• The better way to handle the situation is to render the cats infertile without actually neutering them.• If they're neutered they don't smell.

Origin neuter1

(1300-1400) Latin “neither”, from ne- “not” + uter “which of two”

neu·ter1 adjectiveadjneuter2 verb

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