Spay

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  • transitive verb. To remove surgically the ovaries of (an animal).
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The male red-deer or hart in his third year.
  • To castrate (a female) by extirpating the ovaries.
  • See spae.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).
  • noun. The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Rare spelling of spayard.
  • verb. To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) in order that it cannot become pregnant.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. remove the ovaries of
    • Word Usage
    "Because a spay is an intra-abdominal procedure (we have to go inside the delicate abdomen), it's more complicated."
    Form
    spayed  spaying  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    desex  desexualise  desexualize  fix  sterilise  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    defeminise  defeminize  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abiding-place  bloodletting  catheterization  chemo  endoscopy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    spade  
    verb-form
    spayed  spaying  spays  
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