English-Thai Dictionary
castration
N การทำหมัน การตอน emasculation gelding kan-tam-man
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CASTRATION
n.The act of gelding; the act or practice of making eunuchs; the act of taking away the obscene parts of a writing; the act of taking out a leaf or sheet of a book. In botany, the cutting off of the anthers, or tops of the stamens of flowers, before the ripening of the pollen.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CASTRATION
Cas *tra "tion, n. Etym: [L. castratio; cf. F. castration. ]
Defn: The act of castrating.
New American Oxford Dictionary
castration complex
cas tra tion com plex ▶noun Psychoanalysis (in Freudian theory ) an unconscious anxiety arising during psychosexual development, represented in males as a fear that the penis will be removed by the father in response to sexual interest in the mother, and in females as a compulsion to demonstrate that they have an adequate symbolic equivalent to the penis, whose absence is blamed on the mother.
Oxford Dictionary
castration complex
cas |tra ¦tion com |plex ▶noun Psychoanalysis (in Freudian theory ) an unconscious anxiety arising during psychosexual development, represented in males as a fear that the penis will be removed by the father in response to sexual interest in the mother, and in females as a compulsion to demonstrate that they have an adequate symbolic equivalent to the penis, whose absence is blamed on the mother.
French Dictionary
castration
castration n. f. nom féminin Suppression d ’un organe nécessaire à la reproduction. Note Technique Le nom s ’emploie plus couramment pour les individus mâles.