excrete
verb/ɪkˈskriːt/
/ɪkˈskriːt/
[intransitive] (specialist)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they excrete | /ɪkˈskriːt/ /ɪkˈskriːt/ |
| he / she / it excretes | /ɪkˈskriːts/ /ɪkˈskriːts/ |
| past simple excreted | /ɪkˈskriːtɪd/ /ɪkˈskriːtɪd/ |
| past participle excreted | /ɪkˈskriːtɪd/ /ɪkˈskriːtɪd/ |
| -ing form excreting | /ɪkˈskriːtɪŋ/ /ɪkˈskriːtɪŋ/ |
- to pass solid or liquid waste matter from the bodyTopics Biologyc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin excret- ‘sifted out’, from the verb excernere, from ex- ‘out’ + cernere ‘sift’.
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