neuter 1 of 2

as in to alter
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

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Recent Examples of neuter
Verb
The team also partnered with spay and neuter clinics to study tissue samples. Greta Cross, USA Today, 17 May 2025 In May, a cat named George found himself three miles from home after escaping from the local SPCA following his neuter operation appointment. Moná Thomas, People.com, 5 June 2025
Adjective
But the damage had already been done: Lennon’s activism had been effectively neutered. Steve Bloom, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025 If your cat isn't spayed or neutered, mating behaviors may also be the source of the issue. Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for neuter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for neuter
Verb
  • With compounded drugs, licensed pharmacists alter, mix or combine ingredients of a drug to customize medicines.
    Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
  • Decreasing the available calories isn’t the only way climate change is altering food, however.
    Umair Irfan, Wired News, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • But Pascal, for all the twinkle in his eye, often plays relatively sexless characters — from the fatherly energy of The Last of Us to the ascetic qualities of The Mandalorian.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 June 2025
  • Especially when contrasted against those boring (mostly) sexless Jedi.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The current rumors are that Apple is willing to pay upwards of $20 billion for a startup to fix its AI strategy—potentially its largest acquisition ever.
    R. Scott Raynovich, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The results showed some progress, but the car's brakes suffered issues during the Grand Prix, and Hamilton is already looking forward to this issue being fixed.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The report said authors found low certainty of evidence on the effects of gender-affirming surgeries on adolescents including suicidality, depression, asexual function, quality of life and regret.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 May 2025
  • Often actors in big bodies are rendered as asexual or undesirable, perverse or hyper-sexualized.
    Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Neuter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neuter. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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