excrete

excrete
   to defecate
   Literally, to discharge from a body. It could therefore (but does not) refer to blood, sweat, tears, snot, urine, etc.:
    Soldiers lucky enough to find a soup kitchen discovered that boiling soup froze solid before they could finish it, while those who dropped their trousers to excrete in the open, died as their bowels froze solid. (Deighton, 1993/1, writing about Germans on the Russian front)

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  • Excrete — Ex*crete , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Excreted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Excreting}.] [L. excretus, p. p. of excernere to sift out, discharge; ex out + cernere to sift, separate. See {Crisis}.] To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. The mucus thus… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • excrete — index exude, purge (purify) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • excrete — 1610s, from L. excretus, pp. of excernere (see EXCREMENT (Cf. excrement)). Related: Excreted; excreting …   Etymology dictionary

  • excrete — [v] discharge, usually liquified substance defecate, egest, ejaculate, eject, eliminate, emanate, evacuate, exhale, expel, exudate, exude, give off, leak, pass, perspire, produce, remove, secrete, sweat, throw off, urinate, void; concepts 179,185 …   New thesaurus

  • excrete — ► VERB ▪ expel (a substance, especially a product of metabolism) as waste. DERIVATIVES excretion noun excretory adjective. ORIGIN Latin excernere sift out …   English terms dictionary

  • excrete — [eks krēt′, ikskrēt′] vt., vi. excreted, excreting [< L excretus, pp. of excernere, to sift out < ex , out of + cernere, to sift: see HARVEST] 1. to separate (waste matter) from the blood or tissue and eliminate from the body, as through… …   English World dictionary

  • excrete — 01. The waste products [excreted] by yeast in the beer making process actually add flavor to the beer. 02. Trees are very important to our environment because, unlike humans, they take in carbon dioxide and [excrete] oxygen. 03. When an owl eats… …   Grammatical examples in English

  • excrete — UK [ɪkˈskriːt] / US [ɪkˈskrɪt] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms excrete : present tense I/you/we/they excrete he/she/it excretes present participle excreting past tense excreted past participle excreted biology to get rid of liquid,… …   English dictionary

  • excrete — [[t]ɪkskri͟ːt[/t]] excretes, excreting, excreted VERB When a person or animal excretes waste matter from their body, they get rid of it in faeces, urine, or sweat. [TECHNICAL or, FORMAL] [V n] Your open pores excrete sweat and dirt... [V n]… …   English dictionary

  • excrete —   Ki o, kākā, hana lepo.    ♦ Need to excrete, pu u ki o, pu aki o.    ♦ Discomfort preceding excreting, hōkūkū …   English-Hawaiian dictionary

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