Hyphenation of castration

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word castration? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

cas-tra-tion

Definitions of castration:

1.	Neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
2.	Surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) Bilateral castration results in sterilization
3.	The deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work

Synonyms of castration:

noun	emasculation, neutering, fixing, altering
noun	operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
noun	expurgation, deletion

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