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SHITTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The elimination of fecal waste through the anus
Synonyms:
defecation; laxation; shitting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("shitting" is a kind of...):
elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding (the bodily process of discharging waste matter)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shitting"):
bm; bowel movement; movement (a euphemism for defecation)
haematochezia; hematochezia (passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer))
dump; shit (a coarse term for defecation)
urochesia; urochezia (passage of urine from the anus)
Derivation:
shit (have a bowel movement)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb shit
