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.
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Neither did I feel male, but rather neuter , as a child might feel itself to be neuter.
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Paramour comes to mind, but that is a neuter term.
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What is to be understood as female is something vague; indeed the Spirit is often designated as neuter .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He would keep it by neutering Steve Jobs.
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I think it was the neutering that made us equal, even in the eyes of our professors.
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If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before, she was smothering it with symbols now.
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If the source can not be located or suppressed, then at least its effect can be neutered.
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If they're neutered they don't smell.
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Spaying and neutering pets is the easiest way to cure that problem.
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The asterisk, to my mind, was emblematic of the neutering of Iron Mike.
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The better way to handle the situation is to render the cats infertile without actually neutering them.