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excrete

ex·crete

excrete

 
pronunciation:
ihk skrit
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part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: excretes, excreting, excreted
definition: to discharge or eliminate (wastes and harmful materials) from the body.
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adverb + (v.)excrete almost, continuously, elsewhere, less, normally, once, primarily, quickly, readily, simply, slowly, sometimes, then
(v.)excrete + nounHelp ability, acid, ammonium, amount, animal, average, baby, balance, bicarbonate, bile, bird, blood, body, breast, breathing, calcium, cancer, capacity, cell, chemical, colony, compound, creature, dose, drug, eating, enzyme, excess, fat, feces, fish, fluid, food, function, gland, hair, honeydew, intestine, kidney, larva, level, liver, material, mercury, metal, molecule, mouth, mucus, nitrogen, nutrient, organism, patient, peptide, phytoplankton, pig, plant, poison, pore, portion, potassium, product, protein, radioactivity, rest, risk, salt, skin, sodium, solution, study, substance, sugar, sweat, tear, tissue, ton, toxin, urine, virus, vitamin, waste, water, year [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: excretive (adj.), excreter (n.)
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affects excretion
some actions associated with excretion
some parts of the body involved in excretion
some products of excretion