spay
verb/speɪ/
/speɪ/
(specialist)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they spay | /speɪ/ /speɪ/ |
| he / she / it spays | /speɪz/ /speɪz/ |
| past simple spayed | /speɪd/ /speɪd/ |
| past participle spayed | /speɪd/ /speɪd/ |
| -ing form spaying | /ˈspeɪɪŋ/ /ˈspeɪɪŋ/ |
- spay something to remove the ovaries of a female animal, to prevent it from producing young
- Have you had your cat spayed?
Oxford Collocations DictionarySpay is used with these nouns as the object:- cat
- dog
Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Old French espeer ‘cut with a sword’, from espee ‘sword’, from Latin spatha, from Greek spathē ‘broad blade’.Definitions on the go
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