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SPAY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the ovaries of

Example:

Is your cat spayed?

Synonyms:

alter; castrate; neuter; spay

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "spay" is one way to...):

desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex (make infertile)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spay"):

defeminise; defeminize (remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

spaying (neutering a female by removing the ovaries)

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