📖 Definitions of "Declaw"
verb
- 1
To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy.
- 2
To make harmless.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Declaw"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| clitoridectomizeverb | (transitive) To perform a surgical clitoridectomy upon; to remove the clitoris of. |
| unnailverb | (transitive) To remove the nails from. |
| docknoun | Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash. |
| castratenoun | A castrated man; a eunuch. |
| alterverb | (ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of. |
| beclawverb | (transitive) To scratch or tear all over with claws or nails. |
| decorticate | Having had the cortex removed |
| velvetnoun | A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side. |
| orchidectomizeverb | (transitive) To perform an orchidectomy upon. |
| claw awayverb | (transitive, obsolete) Synonym of claw (“to rail, revile, or scold (someone or something)”). |
| denailverb | (transitive) To remove nails (the fasteners) from. |
| discectomizeverb | (surgery) To perform a discectomy |
| dissectverb | (transitive) To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts. |
| devocalizeverb | (transitive, phonetics) To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality. |
| orchidectomiseverb | Alternative form of orchidectomize. [(transitive) To perform an orchidectomy upon.] |
| neuternoun | (biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers. |
| discalceateverb | (rare) barefoot |
| desexnoun | (transitive) To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often via physical sterilization. |
| decrustverb | (transitive) To remove the crust from. |
| parenoun | A Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. |
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