noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An act of excretion.

   "[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]"

2. 2
   the bodily process of discharging waste matter wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of excrete form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

dischargeeliminationeliminationevacuationexcretionsecretion

Example

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"[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]"

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