defecate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛfɪkət/
Forms: form: defecates
form: defecating
form: defecated
form: defecated
form: defæcate
form: defaecate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfaecātus, the perfect passive participle of dēfaecō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also faeces; cognate with French déféquer.
Senses: glosses: To excrete feces from one's bowels.
glosses: To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
examples: text: [I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.
ref: 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter III, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: […] I ſhall add, that proſecuting a hint a happened to meet with in the diſcourſe of a wandering chymiſt, I practiſed a way ſo to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber drawn per ſe, that a pretty proportion of it would come over ſo tranſparent and finely coloured, that the experiment did not a little pleaſe thoſe I ſhewed it to.
ref: 1744, Robert Boyle with Thomas Birch, edited by Thomas Birch, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Five Volumes : to which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, volume 1, compilation of Certain phyſiological eſsays and other tracts written at diſtant times, and on ſeveral occaſions by the honourable Robert Boyle ; wherein ſome of the tracts are enlarged by experiments and the work is increaſed by the addition of a diſcourse about the abſolute reſt in bodies. by Robert Boyle, part VI: Certain Physiological Essays, and other tracts written at diſtant Times, eſsay 7: The Hiſtory of Fluidity and Firmneſs, the ſecond part: of Firmneſs, page 265:
text: Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 224:
glosses: To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.
Synonyms: word: boo-boo
word: cack
word: choke a darkie
word: crap
word: defecate
word: do one's ease
word: ease oneself
word: do a number two
word: do one's easement
word: drite
word: drop a bomb
word: drop a chalupa
word: drop a deuce
word: drop anchor
word: drop the kids off at the pool
word: dung
word: exrementize
word: feceate
word: have a shit
word: move one's bowels
word: pinch a loaf
word: pinch one off
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: sharn
word: shart
word: shiss
word: shit
word: shite
word: stool
word: take a dump
word: take a shit
word: take a crap
word: take the Browns to the Super Bowl
word: uncoil
word: void one's bowels
Hypernyms: word: answer the call of nature
word: do one's duty
word: eliminate
word: excrete
word: go
word: go potty
word: go to the bathroom
word: go to the restroom
word: go to the toilet
word: go to the washroom
word: make
word: relieve oneself
word: see a man
word: see a man about a dog
word: see a man about a horse
word: see a man about the plumbing
word: unleash hell
word: use the bathroom
word: use the restroom
word: use the toilet
word: use the washroom
Derived terms: defecalgesiophobia
defecator
undefecated
Related terms: word: defecation
word: feces
word: urinate
word: flatulate