Declaw

Word DECLAW
Character 6
Hyphenation declaw
Pronunciations /diːˈklɔː/

Definitions and meanings of "Declaw"

What do we mean by declaw?

To remove the claws from. transitive verb

To strip of power, potency, or strength; make harmless or less threatening. transitive verb

To remove the claws from, -- used especially with a cat as an object. transitive verb

To surgically remove the claws from. verb

To make harmless. verb

Remove the claws from verb

To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy.

To make harmless.

To say something that will shut someone up who’s being catty. Urban Dictionary

Any woman in the Cougar age range (40 something) that is attracted to younger men, but is not actively 'hunting' them. Instead she simply admires and desires from a distance. Urban Dictionary

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The word "declaw" in example sentences

BEER-SHEVA, Israel, March 9 (UPI) -- Engineers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel say they have developed a way to "declaw" nuclear fuel, ensuring only peaceful plutonium use. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead they make the case that the only way to stop the disproportionately high Black on Black gun violence and homicide rate is to 'declaw' Black males like you and I, removing this threatening tool from our possession. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Expect the new Republican majority to try to destroy the forty year old Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, to defund, and declaw the EPA. ❋ Larry Beinhart (2011)

People who are anti-declawing generally are not all that educated on the actual facts, because the anti-declaw community is incredibly vocal compared to the rest of us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yeah, after $20K of damage to furniture and getting close to divorce (and spending $400/mt on counseling), HER cats finally got declawed (mine was a total declaw from 10 weeks old). ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was from a species of the creep family, a diagnostician told me as a favor, later, after I was forced to declaw him. ❋ Bobbi Lurie (2011)

He had the wisdom to declaw an ambitious dictator and leave him in power to counterbalance the influence of Iran. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I swore to spay the cat, keep her indoors, never declaw her, and give her back to the cat woman if we became unable to care for her. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Little more than one year after the death of the declawed cat that forever carved out a spot in my heart, I find great irony in the fact that the declaw ban is sweeping through my home state of California. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The California Veterinary Medical Association successfully passed a bill, SB762, which will make it impossible to pass local declaw bans after this date. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is the great task of the 21st century -- to declaw, spay and neuter Imperialism and its killing apparatus once and for all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet since he's a cat he'll have nine lives, and maybe four more years to pitch at us and bat, and purr in ways that some adore, though fat cats may try to declaw this puss before he does more harm. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Remember it is surgery, not some little cosmetic grooming thing like a dogs declaw removal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As of November 10, six California cities have passed declaw bans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“If that [receptionist] says one damn thing about my hair, I will [declaw] her ass so fast.” "If she starts getting [catty], just say something about her husband leaving her for another woman. That'll declaw her in a second." ❋ Brett Burkhardt (2008)

"I find younger men yummy 'eye candy', but I don't touch, just look. I am sort of a [cougar] but with no [claws]. A [cougar declawed]." ❋ Lambercat 001 (2009)

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