spay
verb (specialist)- spay something
to remove the ovaries of a female animal, to prevent it from producing young Topics Animalsc2切除雌兽的卵巢;劁(雌兽) 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’.