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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/
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  1. spay something to remove the ovaries of a female animal, to prevent it from producing young切除雌兽的卵巢；劁（雌兽）
    • Have you had your cat spayed?你的母猫劁了没有？🔊🔊
    Topics Animalsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySpay is used with these nouns as the object:
    • cat
    • dog
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    Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Old French espeer ‘cut with a sword’, from espee ‘sword’, from Latin spatha, from Greek spathē ‘broad blade’.