geld

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

geld, n. [AS. gild, gield, geld, tribute, payment, fr. gieldan to pay, render. See Yield.].

 Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.  [1913 Webster]
" This word occurs in old law books in composition, as in danegeld, or danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc."  [1913 Webster]

geld, v. t. [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. gälla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG. galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.].

•  To castrate; to emasculate.  [1913 Webster]
•  To deprive of anything essential.  [1913 Webster]

  "Bereft and gelded of his patrimony."  [1913 Webster]
•  To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

geld, v.tr.
1 deprive (usu. a male animal) of the ability to reproduce.
2 castrate or spay; excise the testicles or ovaries of.

Etymology

ME f. ON gelda f. geldr barren f. Gmc

THESAURUS

geld

alter, castrate, change, demasculinize, desexualize, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, eunuchize, fix, mutilate, neuter, sissify, soften, spay, unsex, womanize

ROGET THESAURUS

geld

Subtraction

VB subduct, subtract, deduct, deduce, bate, retrench, remove, withdraw, take from, take away, detract, garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate, cut off, cut away, cut out, abscind, excise, pare, thin, prune, decimate, abrade, scrape, file, geld, castrate, eliminate, diminish, curtail, deprive of, weaken.

Impotence

VB be impotent, not have a leg to stand on, vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou, vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents, collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop, go by the board, go by the wayside, go up in smoke, end in smoke, render powerless, deprive of power, disable, disenable, disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands, double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of, throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote, ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns, take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel, break the neck, break the back, unhinge, unfit, put out of gear, unman, unnerve, enervate, emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix, shatter, exhaust, weaken.