excrement
noun/ˈekskrɪmənt/
/ˈekskrɪmənt/
[uncountable] (formal)- solid waste matter that is passed from the body through the bowels synonym faeces
- the pollution of drinking water by untreated human excrement
- There was excrement smeared up the wall.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryExcrement is used after these nouns:- dog
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French excrément or Latin excrementum, from excernere ‘to sift out’, from ex- ‘out’ + cernere ‘sift’.
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