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SPEND A PENNY
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eliminate urine
Example:
Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug
Synonyms:
make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "spend a penny" is one way to...):
egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)
Verb group:
urinate (pass after the manner of urine)
ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spend a penny"):
wet (make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating)
stale (urinate, of cattle and horses)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
