Usually means: Surgical removal of animal claws.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. declaw: Merriam-Webster
  2. declaw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. declaw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. declaw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. declaw: Vocabulary.com
  6. declaw: Wordnik
  7. declaw: Wiktionary
  8. declaw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. declaw: Dictionary.com
  10. Declaw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. declaw: Rhymezone
  12. declaw: FreeDictionary.org
  13. declaw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. declaw: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. declaw: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. declaw: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Declaw: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See declawing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (declaw)

verb:  (transitive, veterinary medicine) To surgically remove the claws of (an animal); to perform onychectomy on.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To make harmless.

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