English verb: spay | |||
| 1. | spay (body) remove the ovaries of | ||
| Samples | Is your cat spayed?. | ||
| Synonyms | alter, castrate, neuter | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | defeminise, defeminize | ||