NEUTERING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The sterilization of an animal

Example:

they took him to the vet for neutering

Synonyms:

altering; fixing; neutering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("neutering" is a kind of...):

sterilisation; sterilization (the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neutering"):

castration; emasculation (neutering a male animal by removing the testicles)

spaying (neutering a female by removing the ovaries)

Derivation:

neuter (remove the ovaries of)

-ing form of the verb neuter