GELD (gelt)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: gelt   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does geld mean? 

• GELD (verb)
  The verb GELD has 1 sense:

1. cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)

  Familiarity information: GELD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GELD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they geld    ... he / she / it gelds   
Past simple: gelded   
Past participle: gelded   
-ing form: gelding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

cut; geld

Context example:

the vet gelded the young horse

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)