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adjective

as in altered

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neutered

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verb

past tense of neuter

as in fixed

to remove the sex organs of agreed to let the children have the dog on the condition that they have her neutered

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Adjective

All adoptable pets are spayed, neutered and up to date on vaccines and tests. — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026 This reader hopes that will be a rebuttal to all the dubious America 250 content flooding orgs beholden to the neutered NEA. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026 The effects pouring out of the legislative, executive and even judicial branches of government in this state are about an all-powerful majority and a neutered opposition. — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026

Verb

After his post-DOGE meltdown last year, many had thought Musk had been neutered. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026 With a run game neutered by a stout Auburn front, the game was on his shoulders. — Connor Riley, AJC.com, 18 Oct. 2026 While Israel’s attacks on the agency neutered its role coordinating aid entry and distribution in Gaza, UNRWA’s core programs have remained. — Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Caring for them opened the couple’s eyes to the number of cats living outdoors in their neighborhood and how few had been spayed or neutered. — Meg Dunn, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026 The cats will be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped, too. — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 All adoption-able pets at Humane Indiana are vaccinated, tested for heartworm, dewormed, microchipped, given flea/tick and heartworm prevention, and spayed or neutered. — Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026 Each dog adopted from the Bradshaw Animal Shelter will be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Now that the referee’s decision has been effectively neutered with few details as to why, the world is left to draw its own conclusions. — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for neutered

Adjective

Policymakers have been quick to react to the altered energy dynamics.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The regions of the brain that control emotion and memory, like the amygdala and hippocampus, also function differently during this altered state.

— Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of altered

Verb

Last week, researchers discovered thousands of shareable Muse links that exposed private chat logs and documents, leading Meta to suspend the feature until it could be fixed.

— Marty Swant, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Most plans treat it as fixed, assuming more sales capacity, more budget and more headcount will solve the problem.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of fixed

Adjective

The government has a longstanding program to breed sterile male flies and drop swarms of them from planes to mate with wild females, causing the flies to die out.

— Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
The 46-year-old was ushered into a sterile room for her appointment, her phone lit up with a text.

— Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of sterile

Adjective

United were alarmingly impotent in a way which, even now, is strange to see and damaging for a head coach’s reputation.

— Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Republicans want to scare voters into thinking that if Democrats win the midterm elections, the United States will be on the road to a future in which the Senate is no more—or is, at best, an impotent debate club for elderly statesmen.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026

Definition of impotent

Adjective

President Penn and her husband Todd (Whitford) get to throw down now and then, as a husband who already feels emasculated has to sit and watch his wife recede into bitter militance.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
And that’s the main tension this season, as Beau is feeling emasculated by the dynamic.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 July 2026

Definition of emasculated

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