excrete

excrete

See also: excreté, excrété, and excrète

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excretum, past participle of excerno, from ex- (“out”), and cerno (“separate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈskɹiːt/, /ɪkˈskɹiːt/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

excrete (third-person singular simple present excretes, present participle excreting, simple past and past participle excreted)

1. (biology, transitive, intransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.

   Your open pores excrete sweat and dirt.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:urinate and Thesaurus:defecate

Derived terms

Derived terms

• excretory

Related terms

• excern
• excrement
• excreta
• excretion

Translations

to discharge material

Bulgarian: отделям (bg) (otdeljam) Catalan: excretar (ca) Chinese: 排泄 (zh) (páixiè) Czech: vyloučit (cs) Dutch: afscheiden (nl) Finnish: erittää (fi), ulostaa (fi) (to defecate) French: excréter (fr) German: ausscheiden (de) Greek: εκκρίνει (ekkrínei) Hungarian: kiválaszt (hu) Italian: espellere (it) Japanese: 排泄する (はいせつする, haisetsusuru) Maori: whakatikotiko Polish: wydalać (pl) impf, wydalić (pl) pf, wydzielać (pl) impf, wydzielić (pl) pf Portuguese: excretar (pt) Romanian: a excreta, a elimina Russian: выделя́ть (ru) (vydeljátʹ) Spanish: excretar (es) Tetum: tee Turkish: boşaltım (tr)

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Latin

Participle

excrēte

1. vocative masculine singular of excrētus

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɛtɨ
• Hyphenation: ex‧cre‧te

Verb

excrete

1. inflection of excretar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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Spanish

Verb

excrete

1. inflection of excretar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative