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spave

spave is the archaic 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 spave

third-person singular presentspaves
present participlespaving
past participlespaved
pastspaved

Questions about spave

What is spave the archaic form of?
Spave is the archaic form of spay.

Words near spave in the dictionary

  1. Spaulding
  2. Spauldings
  3. spaulds
  4. Spaur
  5. Spaurs
  6. spave
  7. spaved
  8. Spaven
  9. spaves
  10. spavin
  11. spavindy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spave (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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