0 past simple and past participle of neuter
1 to remove part of an animal's sexual organs, so that it cannot produce young animals:
In the end, we have only neutered rhetorical forms to stand as theories, and random design novelties to stand as practice.
Neutrality is only neuter insofar as it carries that threat of exposing the neutered male; it signifies excessive, uncontainable gendered alliances rather than a lack.
More than this, it seems to speak of a time when popular culture had effectively been neutered as an alternative belief system.
He will then have to have his dog, male or female, neutered by a veterinary surgeon.
Quite simply, we have been neutered by the great crested newt.
Is it necessary in this day and age that the city gentleman, or, for that matter, the country gentleman should emulate the fat neutered tabby?
Once they have taken sides they become neutered, unable to help the situation.
Why, then, do they introduce an advisory council, which is a neutered body whose remit is purely to advise?