Past tense of spay
regular verb
The past tense of spay is spayed. The past participle is also spayed.
Forms of spay
| Base form (V1) | spay /speɪ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | spayed /speɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | spayed /speɪd/ |
| Present participle | spaying |
| Third person singular | spays |
Spayed in a sentence
- We’re having our cat spayed as we don’t want her having kittens.
- "Has your cat been spayed?" "I didn't need to: she's a freemartin."From the entry freemartin
Meaning of spay
- verb To destroy or remove the ovaries or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy.
- noun The act of spaying an animal.
Questions about the past tense of spay
- What is the past tense of spay?
- The past tense of spay is spayed.
- What is the past participle of spay?
- The past participle of spay is spayed.
- Is spay a regular or irregular verb?
- Spay is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: spay (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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