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to shitten

to shitten

1 9.9
To cover something with animal poop
  • verb
  • Offensive
: ensuciar con mierda
  • After the storm, the children were careful not to play in the area where the dogs had shitten the yard.

Examples

  • The farmer was worried that the heavy rain would cause the animals to shitten the pasture.

  • The old barn's floor had become shitten over the years, making it difficult to walk through.

  • Please don't let me shit on you please.

Antonyms

28 4.6

To remove dirt and bad chemicals from water or air to make them clean

28 3.0

Remove dirt and germs from a person's body by washing

How Dirty

to shitten
  • Offensive
1 9.9
to defile
36 8.6
to dirty
12 1.0
to soil
23 4.5
to stain
46 3.2

Surface Forms

shitten infinitive
shitting present participle
shitted past
shitted past participle

Morphology

shitten = shit (transparent) = shit + en

The transitive verb meaning 'to cover or defile with excrement' is formed by the productive causative/adjectival -en suffix on 'shit', so the relation is direct.

Etymology

Shitten as a verb comes from the common verb shit, meaning 'to poo', with the -en ending that made verbs or past forms, and it was used to mean 'to cover or soil with excrement'. So to shitten something was to dirty it with poo.