The word 'neutering' is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to render a male animal infertile. Example: The shelter offers low-cost neutering services for cats and dogs to help control the pet population.
He began by neutering the country's traditionally meddlesome generals.
Non-governmental organisations will not be allowed to receive funding from abroad, a change which may force many to close.Another new law allows the president to transfer the powers and resources of local government to socialist communes, potentially neutering the opposition's electoral victories in many big cities in 2008.
But by preventing the rise of an able successor, while neutering the new democratic institutions, he has left Guinea in a condition almost as precarious as his own health.
The other is that, by virtually neutering opposition inside parliament, a grand coalition would encourage it outside.
Some observers fear that as India succeeds in neutering Kashmir's nationalist politicians, religious groups will flourish.A Wahhabi welfare organisation, al Hadith, which almost certainly benefits from generous Saudi funds, is quietly emerging as a powerful welfare, religious and cultural force.
Opponents of the proposal want better education for cat-owners (many domestic pets are let loose in the wild) or trapping, neutering and releasing of feral cats.In this section Is Arnold in trouble?
A survey of city residents conducted last year returned a meagre 11 per cent approval rating, and his erratic behaviour led to president Viktor Yanukovych appointing Oleksandr Popov as head of the Kiev state administration, effectively neutering Chernovetskiy's power.
If the agreement were explicit, it would be a crime, but the same results are achieved legally, neutering the power of competition.
But on the Republican National Lawyers Association blog, Paul Jossey warned readers not to be fooled by Lessig's talk of bipartisanship; he was ultimately intent on "neutering Wall Street, and a panoply of other progressive policy prescriptions".
But the way Hale writes the scene almost succeeds in completely neutering these two sources of outrage.
