Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spaying

1 sense of spaying

Sense 1
spaying -- (neutering a female by removing the ovaries)
       => neutering, fixing, altering -- (the sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering")

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")