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spaie

spaie is the obsolete form of spay.

Meaning of spay

Verb

spay (third-person singular simple present spays, present participle spaying, simple past and past participle spayed or (obsolete) spade)

  1. (transitive) To destroy or remove the ovaries or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy.
    • We’re having our cat spayed as we don’t want her having kittens.

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Forms of spaie

third-person singular presentspaies
present participlespaying
past participlespaied
pastspaied

Questions about spaie

What is spaie the obsolete form of?
Spaie is the obsolete form of spay.

Words near spaie in the dictionary

  1. Spaho
  2. Spahr
  3. Spahrs
  4. spaid
  5. spaids
  6. spaie
  7. spaik
  8. spaikin'
  9. spaiks
  10. Spain
  11. Spaine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spaie (page history and authors); spay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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