to defecate
16
7.0
- verb
- /ˈdɛfɪˌkeɪt/
- Formal
- He felt a sudden urge to defecate after eating the spicy food.
- urinate and defecate
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Watch on YouTubePlease don't defecate along our trails.
- Please don't defecate along our trails.
- Bears also don't eat, drink, urinate, or defecate for the months they are hibernating.
- They are eating, sleeping, defecating, urinating in that same space for a period of years.
- The first thing is when she says this, Binks has decided that she no longer wants to poop or defecate in the litter boxes.
- In Catalonia nativity scenes, they have something called the Caganer CAGANER and it's a defecating man.
- So why was anyone from England going all the way to Peru to get bird poo when England is full of defecating birds?
- So here's a guy with broken feet, bleeding, urinating, defecating himself.
- I bet him probably a year and a half and he's defecating bro, you know what I'm saying?
Examples
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There are pigeons that roost on the restaurant, and they're just defecating constantly.
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One flew inside the bakery and defecated on the coconut macaroons.
Fiction book (1996) -
Did you really wanna defecate in front of me, sir?
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I moved out when their children started defecating in the street outside my window.
Blog text (21) -
Like people live on a dollar a day, people who, you know, there was a time when a billion people defecated in the street.
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Does the dog instantly defecate or urinate when left on their own?
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Please don't defecate along our trails.
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The patient was encouraged to use the learned techniques at the slightest urge to defecate at home.
Academic text (2000) -
They are eating, sleeping, defecating, urinating in that same space for a period of years.
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Bears also don't eat, drink, urinate, or defecate for the months they are hibernating.
Synonyms
155
8.9
To pass solid waste from the body
55
9.9
To go to the toilet to poo
35
9.9
To poop solid waste out of the body
32
9.0
To pass solid waste from your body
11
9.9
To poop, said as a rude word
4
9.9
To go to the toilet to poop in informal speech
1
7.4
To move waste out of the body, usually from the bowels
1
9.9
To pass solid waste from your body
1
9.9
To poop and get rid of solid waste from your body
1
8.3
An animal passes waste from its body
1
9.1
To pass waste from the bowels
1
7.5
To pee or poo, usually in a toilet
To go to the toilet to poop in a rude way
To pass poo from your body
How Polite
- US
252
1.0
- Formal
16
7.0
64
3.3
- NSFW
5
8.9
- Informal
448
2.6
- Offensive
155
8.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Defecate comes from the Latin defaecare, made of de- 'away' and faex 'waste'. That old idea of 'cleaning out' the body is why defecate today means to pass solid waste or 'feces'.