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"word": "sterilize"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To castrate"
],
"links": [
[
"castrate",
"castrate"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To render ineffectual."
],
"links": [
[
"ineffectual",
"ineffectual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) To render ineffectual."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "yo͞oʹnək"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjuː.nək/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eunuch.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eunuch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eunuch.wav.mp3",
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}
],
"wikipedia": [
"eunuch"
],
"word": "eunuch"
}
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