neutering

verb

present participle of neuter
as in altering
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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Recent Examples of neutering That cost includes electricity costs, vaccines/spay and neutering, and staffing, Webber said. — Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026 Officials urged spaying and neutering and early outreach for help to prevent similar cases. — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026 The story has been decades in the making as the Colombian government tried multiple nonfatal methods of culling the hippo population, including neutering and relocating. — Carlie Procell, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026 Environment Minister Irene Vélez said previous methods to control their population have been expensive and unsuccessful, including neutering some of the animals or moving them to zoos. — Manuel Rueda, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026 Environment Minister Irene Vélez said the decision was reached because other methods to control their population have been expensive and unsuccessful, including neutering some of the animals or moving them to zoos. — Manuel Rueda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026 And rather than trying to be, in my view, kind of smart about how to build up a Lebanese government for the purpose of disarming and neutering Hezbollah, which is definitely in Israel’s interest, Israel has been engaged in this bombardment of Lebanon. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 June 2026 Still, even an unsuccessful appeal would let Democrats try to blame their failure on the conservative majority that dominates the nation's highest court, which has already infuriated the party and civil rights groups by neutering the Voting Rights Act. — ABC News, 8 May 2026 On Saturday, March 28, Sydney Sherman from Fresno Trap and Release posted on Facebook that a cat named Dodger was brought to the non-profit organization as a stray for neutering. — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for neutering
  1. altering
  2. fixing
Verb
  • Pulling the data off a hard drive or USB drive without altering files or metadata like timestamps also takes skill, Ries says.
    — Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
  • Artificial intelligence is fundamentally altering America's economic geography, enabling businesses to operate globally while reducing reliance on traditional urban hubs.
    — Britney Porter, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of altering
Verb
  • Budget experts say fixing the deficit will require tax hikes, cuts to entitlement, or most likely, a combination of both.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • Washington finally wrote the rules down in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, fixing the forty-hour week and time-and-a-half beyond it.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of fixing

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“Neutering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutering. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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