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to excrete

to excrete

6 7.0
To remove waste from the body through urine, sweat or breath
  • verb
  • /ɪkˈskrit/
  • NSFW
translation icon : excretar
  • Increased temperature stimulates them to excrete sweat, which is mostly water.
  • excrete the waste
  • kidneys to excrete
  • animals excrete

Also another massive thing is since aphids when they are eating your plant they excrete something called honeydew.

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Examples

  • - By the look of things, he needs to excrete right now.

  • They excrete it, use it to build the hives.

  • However: "Not to put too fine a point on it, we live, breathe, and excrete values."

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Why do some of us not excrete enough calories to maintain a healthy body weight?

    Blog text (29)
  • Now what would happen if we didn't excrete any of our sodium?

  • All warm-blooded animals and birds excrete fecal coliform in their waste.

    Academic text (1996)
  • In addition, patients cannot excrete the nitrogenous waste products of protein metabolism and can develop the uraemic syndrome.

    Academic text (1995)
  • A high iodine dose has been proved to help us excrete these endocrine disruptors.

    Blog text (31)
  • For example, researchers at the University of Guelph have developed a transgenic Yorkshire pig that excretes 30% to 65% less phosphorus than its precursors.

    Academic text (2011)
  • After eating, the body will excrete waste through the kidneys and bladder.

Synonyms

to pass
vsto excrete
  • NSFW
168 4.4

To let waste or a small object leave the body

is broader, covering regular removal through skin lungs or organs
to eliminate
vsto excrete
  • Specialized
81 4.3

Remove waste or harmful substances from the body

is broader, covering removal via skin lungs or other body outlets
to expel
vsto excrete
34 5.0

Push out a substance, for example gas from a body or container

is more specific to biological removal through body surfaces and organs
to evacuate
vsto excrete
  • NSFW
3 7.4

To move waste out of the body, usually from the bowels

is more general, including removal via skin lungs and other organs
to egest
vsto excrete
  • Specialized
9.9

To push out waste from the body after digestion

is broader, also covering waste removal through skin or lungs

How Much

to evacuate
5 5.0
to discharge
12 4.4
to excrete
  • NSFW
6 7.0
to leak
212 1.0

Surface Forms

excrete infinitive
excreted past
excreted past participle
excreting present participle
excretes third person singular

Morphology

excrete = ex + crete

The prefix ex- ('out') is recognizable, but the root 'crete' is not a standalone English word so learners may infer the general 'out' meaning but not the precise lexical relation.

Etymology

The word excrete comes from the Latin parts ex- meaning 'out' and -crete meaning 'separate' or 'push out', so it originally meant to 'push out' something from the body. That's why to excrete today is to get rid of waste or fluids from the body.