| NOUN | process | excretion, elimination, evacuation, excreting, voiding | the bodily process of discharging waste matter |
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| substance | excretion, body waste, excreta, excrement, excretory product | waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body |
| Sounds | ihkskriy'shahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | The bodily process of discharging waste matter. | |
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| Synonyms | elimination, evacuation, excreting, voiding | |
| Narrower | defecation, laxation, shitting | The elimination of fecal waste through the anus |
| incontinence, incontinency | involuntary urination or defecation | |
| micturition, urination | The discharge of urine | |
| Broader | discharge, emission, expelling | Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body |
| Spanish | defecación, deposición, deyección, evacuación, excreción | |
| Catalan | defecació, dejecció, deposició, ejecció, evacuació, excreció | |
| Adjectives | excretory | of or relating to the process of excretion |
| Verbs | excrete | eliminate from the body |
| Meaning | waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body. | |
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| Synonyms | body waste, excreta, excrement, excretory product | |
| Narrower | fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection | Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels |
| fecula | excreta (especially of insects) | |
| guano | The excrement of sea birds | |
| human waste | The body wastes of human beings | |
| urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water | liquid excretory product | |
| vomit, vomitus, puke, barf | The matter ejected in vomiting | |
| wormcast | cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm | |
| Broader | waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product | Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |
| Spanish | deyección, excreción, excremento, hez | |
| Catalan | dejecció, excreció, excrement, femta, tifa | |
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