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excreting::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | elimination, evacuation, excretion, voiding |
| Type of | discharge, emission, expelling |
| Has types | laxation, micturition, shitting, defecation, urination, incontinence, incontinency |
| Derivation | excrete |
Examples of excreting
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I have this year's programme in my hands and I'm literally excreting excitement.
From the independent.co.uk
Normal salmon stop excreting growth hormones when water temperatures cool.
From the theatlantic.com
The larvae hatch and spend weeks or months consuming, digesting, excreting.
From the latimes.com
Excreting less calcium indicates that they absorbed less of the mineral.
From the sciencedaily.com
Feeding and the excreting wastes are done with the aid of flowing water.
From the foxnews.com
As a result, they are not excreting as much potassium as they should.
From the dailyherald.com
What is the point, really, of all this ingesting and excreting?
From the nytimes.com
Alternatively, some children may have a problem excreting mercury.
From the newscientist.com
Soon he is slithering around his room and climbing the walls, excreting a viscous black sludge.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
- (excretion) elimination: the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- (excretion) body waste: waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
- Excretion is the process by which waste products of metabolism and other non-useful materials are eliminated from an organism. It is an essential process in all forms of life. It contrasts secretion, where the substance may have specific tasks after leaving the cell.
- To discharge from the system
- (excretion) The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting; Something being excreted in that manner
- (Excretion) is the removal of the medicine from the body through the kidneys and liver.
- (Excretion) Elimination of alcohol from the body in an unchanged state.
- (excretion) The loss of ethanol from the body through urine, sweat, breath, and other routes of exit.
