defecate
Verb
Verb Forms: defecated, defecating, defecates
- To discharge feces from the body.
- have a bowel movement
- To excrete feces from one's bowels.
- To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
- To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.
Adj
- Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
Examples
- The player needed to defecate the bad tiles from their rack by making a quick, low-score play.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
ca-ca, crap, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit, boo-boo, cack, choke a darkie, defecate, do a number two, do one's ease, do one's easement, drite, drop a bomb, drop a chalupa, drop a deuce, drop anchor, drop the kids off at the pool, dung, ease oneself, exrementize, feceate, have a shit, move one's bowels, pinch a loaf, pinch one off, poo, pooh, poop, sharn, shart, shiss, shite, take a dump, take the Browns to the Super Bowl, uncoil, void one's bowels
Scrabble Score: 14
defecate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddefecate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
defecate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary