Gelded vs. Barren — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Gelded and Barren
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Gelded
To castrate (a horse, for example).
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Barren
(of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation
The barren, burnt-up countryside
The plains of Kyrenia were barren
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Gelded
To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.
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Barren
(of a place or building) bleak and lifeless
The sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building
The flat feels too tidy, almost barren
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Gelded
Simple past tense and past participle of geld
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Barren
A barren tract or tracts of land
The Newfoundland barrens
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Gelded
Castrated.
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Barren
A group or drove of mules
The Greeks were seen to drive a barren of mules
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Gelded
(of a male animal) having the testicles removed;
A cut horse
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Barren
Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.
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Barren
Often Offensive Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of women.
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Barren
Not producing or incapable of producing fruit
Barren trees.
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Barren
Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation
Barren tundra.
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Barren
Unproductive of results or gains; unprofitable
"That icy winter silence—how it froze you from your bride, / Tho' I made one barren effort to break it at the last!" (Alfred Lord Tennyson).
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Barren
Devoid of something specified
Writing barren of insight.
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Barren
Lacking in liveliness or interest
A barren routine.
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Barren
Often barrens A tract of unproductive land, often with a scrubby growth of trees.
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Barren
(not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile.
I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?
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Barren
Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
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Barren
Bleak.
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Barren
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
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Barren
Mentally dull; stupid.
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Barren
An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.
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Barren
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; - said of women and female animals.
She was barren of children.
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Barren
Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile.
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Barren
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
Brilliant but barren reveries.
Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.
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Barren
Mentally dull; stupid.
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Barren
A tract of barren land.
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Barren
Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
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Barren
An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
The barrens of central Africa
The trackless wastes of the desert
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Barren
Providing no shelter or sustenance;
Bare rocky hills
Barren lands
The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
The desolate surface of the moon
A stark landscape
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Barren
Not bearing offspring;
A barren woman
Learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
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Barren
Incapable of sustaining life;
The dead and barren Moon
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