vasectomize
verb
va·sec·to·mize
və-ˈsek-tə-ˌmīz 
vā-ˈzek-
vā-ˈzek-
vasectomized; vasectomizing
: to perform a vasectomy on
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Once most of the male deer are sterilized, a program would need to be established to vasectomize any deer that may swim over from New Jersey, where the borough’s deer are thought to have originated.
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Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
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vasectomize
transitive verb
va·sec·to·mize
variants
or chiefly British vasectomise
vasectomized or chiefly British vasectomised; vasectomizing or chiefly British vasectomising
: to perform a vasectomy on
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