: to remove the ovaries and uterus of (a female animal)
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Our cat has been spayed.
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Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff Peek-a-Boo sits in her carrier after she was spayed at MSPCA headquarters in Boston.
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Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
Adoptable dogs are spayed or neutered, microchipped and vaccinated.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2024
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Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
Adoptable dogs are spayed or neutered, microchipped and vaccinated.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2024
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“Spay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spay. Accessed 30 May. 2024.
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spay
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: to remove the ovaries and uterus of (a female animal)
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