Defecate Definition

dĕfĭ-kāt
defecated, defecates, defecating
verb
defecated, defecates, defecating
To become free from impurities.
Webster's New World
To excrete waste matter from the bowels.
Webster's New World
To void (feces) from the bowels.
American Heritage
To remove impurities from; refine (sugar, wine, etc.)
Webster's New World

(now rare) To purge; to pass (something) as excrement.

Wiktionary
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adjective

(obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

Wiktionary

Origin of Defecate

  • From the participle stem of Latin dēfaecāre (“to purify”), from de- and faex (“dreg, impurity”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin dēfaecāre to clean the dregs from dē- de- faex faec- dregs

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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