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SPAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spay mean?
• SPAY (verb)
The verb SPAY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SPAY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
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:
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)
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