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EXCRETING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The bodily process of discharging waste matter
Synonyms:
elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("excreting" is a kind of...):
discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excreting"):
defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)
incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)
micturition; urination (the discharge of urine)
Derivation:
excrete (eliminate from the body)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb excrete
