Defecate

Quick meaning: Defecate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.

Meaning

(intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.

More Meanings

1. To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
2. To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.
3. (obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

Example Sentences

Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.

Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […]

[I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.

[…] I ſhall add, that proſecuting a hint a happened to meet with in the diſcourſe of a wandering chymiſt, I practiſed a way ſo to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber drawn per ſe, that a pretty proportion of it would come over ſo tranſparent and finely coloured, that the experiment did not a little pleaſe thoſe I ſhewed it to.

Word Forms

• defecates
• defecating
• defecated
• defaecate

Synonyms for defecate

Depending on context, synonyms include boo-boo, crap, drite, dung, feceate, poo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shit, crap, make, strain, defaecate, excrementize.

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