Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb spay

1 sense of spay

Sense 1
alter, neuter, spay, castrate -- (remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?")
       => sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix -- (make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized")

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