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defecation Definition


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defecate
verb
    defecated, defecating
    1. formal, technical
      To empty the bowels of waste matter. See also faeces.
      Thesaurus: excrete, void, discharge, pass.
Derivative: defecation
noun
    The action of emptying the bowels
      Thesaurus: excretion, elimination, expurgation, movement, voiding, excrement, evacuation.
Etymology: 19c in this sense; 15c, meaning to ‘purify or clarify': from Latin defaecare, defaecatum to cleanse.



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