NEUTER


Meaning of NEUTER in English

I. adjective

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Masculine, feminine and neuter are labels for formal properties and have nothing to do with what a word actually means.

Neither did I feel male, but rather neuter , as a child might feel itself to be neuter.

Paramour comes to mind, but that is a neuter term.

What is to be understood as female is something vague; indeed the Spirit is often designated as neuter .

II. verb

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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.

If the source can not be located or suppressed, then at least its effect can be neutered.

If they're neutered they don't smell.

Spaying and neutering pets is the easiest way to cure that problem.

The asterisk, to my mind, was emblematic of the neutering of Iron Mike.

The better way to handle the situation is to render the cats infertile without actually neutering them.

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