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Definition of Defecate
1. Verb. Have a bowel movement. "The dog had made in the flower beds"
Related verbs: Make, Make Water, Micturate, Pass Water, Pee, Pee-pee, Piddle, Piss, Puddle, Relieve Oneself, Spend A Penny, Take A Leak, Urinate, Wee, Wee-wee
Generic synonyms: Egest, Eliminate, Excrete, Pass
Specialized synonyms: Dung
Derivative terms: Crap, Crapper, Defecation, Defecator, Shit, Shit, Shitter, Shitting, Stool, Stool
Definition of Defecate
1. a. Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
2. v. t. To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.
3. v. i. To become clear, pure, or free.
Definition of Defecate
1. Verb. (rare) To purify, to clean of dregs etc. ¹
2. Verb. (context: now rare transitive) To purge; to pass (something) as excrement. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To empty one's bowels of feces. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defecate
1. to discharge feces [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Medical Definition of Defecate
1. To perform defecation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defecate
Literary usage of Defecate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Bruised sensation in neck of uterus; frequent ineffectual desire to defecate;
frequent and painful desire to pass urine which is scalding and burning; ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"There was continuous thirst and a constant desire to defecate and urinate. ...
The man was very restless, moving about the room and trying to defecate or ..."
3. De Bow's Review by Making of America Project (1850)
"defecate the juice from the presses, or from the washings, ... Jst. defecate the
pulp itself. 3d. defecate by the bisulphite of lime; filter or draw off; ..."
4. The Influence of Inanition on Metabolism by Francis Gano Benedict (1907)
"9*50m am Made another ineffectual attempt to defecate. 10 pm Have passed a very
comfortable day. The weakness I felt in the morning passed away later. ..."
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