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Word of the Day - Spay
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spay
/speɪ/
verb
[with object]
Sterilize (a female animal) by removing the ovaries.
Origin
Late Middle English: shortening of Old French espeer ‘cut with a sword’, from espee ‘sword’, from Latin spatha (see spathe).
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The couple took their cat to be spayed. They wanted to let her be an outdoor/indoor cat without the worry of kittens.
