spayverb [ T ]
uk/speɪ/us/speɪ/to remove the ovaries of a female animal:
We're having the cat spayed.
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Zoology: veterinary medicine
- alter
- anthrax
- BSE
- castrate
- cattery
- collar
- delouse
- destroy
- distemper
- foot-and-mouth
- froth
- geld
- hoof-and-mouth
- leptospirosis
- myxomatosis
- put sth down 1
- quarantine
- rabies
- vet
- veterinarian
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