to toilet
3
7.0
- verb
- /ˈtɔɪlɪt/
- Specialized
:
ayudar a ir al baño
- All I can handle is getting her dressed, fed, and toileted!
- toilet train
- toilet a child
- dressed and toileted
Examples
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It took me two years to toilet-train Richard, but he finally went to the bathroom.
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Able to transfer and toilet independently.
Academic text (2007) -
I had one case of a back injury where the dog was on crate rest for a week—only allowed out to toilet on a lead.
Blog text (29) -
I know of one person who was a student's personal aide and was (illegally) taken from that job to be the "school toileter" because other staff, whose job it was to toilet their own students, refused to do it.
Blog text (19) -
As the operator had this morning, Richard explained to me that none of our charges yet knew how to use a toothbrush, that it might take as much as a year's time to get them to be able to toilet themselves, to go into the bathroom, pull down their pants, use the facilities, and reenter a room—a year, if we were lucky.
Fiction book (2002) -
Then one day I received a call from my favorite operator to work at a school for the severely handicapped, students whose IQs were in the low teens, who couldn't talk, who couldn't toilet themselves, or use a knife and fork.
Fiction book (2002) -
A long-time male friend of a 72-year-old female nursing home resident who suffered from dementia called the community nursing home social worker to complain that the nursing staff were mistreating the patient by not toileting her properly and were denying him free access to her room so he could assist her.
Academic text (1995) -
About six months after their father moved out, Lainey hired a graduate student to help with Randall—she said she was too old to be toileting a fifteen-year-old boy—and now that Bob got Randall up and off to his ride in the morning, she often slept through breakfast.
Fiction book (1990) -
The nurse helped the elderly patient to toilet before their physical therapy session.
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After lunch, I took the toddler to toilet him, making sure he felt comfortable.
Synonyms
278
1.0
To use the toilet in a polite or indirect way
77
1.1
To go to the toilet to pee or poo
1
1.9
To go to a room with a toilet to pee or poo
1
8.0
To go to the toilet to pee or poo
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
3
2.1
To teach a young child or pet to go to the bathroom instead of wearing diapers
- UK
A small waterproof case for carrying soap, toothbrush, and toothpaste when traveling
- NSFW
Jokes about the body's natural actions that many people find rude or childish
- Archaic
A fine powder people put on their skin after bathing to feel dry and smell nice
How Assisted
- Specialized
3
7.0
- US
278
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Toilet as a verb comes from French toilette, meaning to wash and dress with a small 'cloth', so to toilet someone is to help them wash or use the bathroom.