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 | ||