Definition of "desexing" []

• Present participle of desex. (verb)

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• "She's also passionate about desexing cats and dogs to reduce the euthanasia rate at pet shelters and helping to fund scientific research into the facial tumors that are decimating the Tasmanian devil population."
• "She firmly believed that desexing her daughter was the best thing she could do for her."
• "Only in 1878 was the practice of desexing boys to get the famous adult male soprano voices for the Sistine Choir discontinued."