Micturate

//ˈmɪkt͡ʃəɹeɪt// verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To urinate. formal, intransitive

    "David Lynch himself uses the down-time between takes to confer with A.D.’s and producers and to drink coffee and/or micturate into the undergrowth, and to smoke American Spirits and walk pensively around the Mercedeses and camera truck’s technical fray, sometimes holding one hand to his cheek in a way that recalls Jack Benny."

  2. 2
    eliminate urine wordnet

Synonyms

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pass waterpeepiddlepisstake a leakurinate

Example

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"Don't say you need to micturate, it makes you sound like a wanker. Just say you've got to go piss like a normal person."

Etymology

First attested in 1842; irregular back-formation from micturition on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin micturiō (“to urinate”). Related to Old English mīgan (whence Early Middle English miȝen (“to urinate”) See also Mingere and meiere: urination.

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