SPAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spay mean? 

• SPAY (verb)
  The verb SPAY has 1 sense:

1. remove the ovaries of

  Familiarity information: SPAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPAY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they spay    ... he / she / it spays   
Past simple: spayed   
Past participle: spayed   
-ing form: spaying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the ovaries of

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

alter; castrate; neuter; spay

Context example:

Is your cat spayed?

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)

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): If the animal been spayed or neutered, reproductiveOrgansPresentIndicator = "N".

(Animal Reproductive Organs Present Indicator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)