fixing vs castration

castration vs fixing

fixing and castration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fixing	Yes	No	No	No
castration	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, castration is a hyponym of fixing; that is, castration is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fixing:

fixing: the sterilization of an animal
castration: neutering a male animal by removing the testicles

Other hyponyms of fixing include emasculation, spaying.

fixing (noun)	castration (noun)
the act of putting something in working order again	neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
the sterilization of an animal	surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)
(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body	the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place

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