English noun: excretion |
1. | excretion (process) the bodily process of discharging waste matter |
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| Synonyms | elimination, evacuation, excreting, voiding |
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| Broader (hypernym) | discharge, emission, expelling |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | defecation, incontinence, incontinency, laxation, micturition, shitting, urination |
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2. | excretion (substance) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body |
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| Synonyms | body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product |
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| Broader (hypernym) | waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | barf, BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, fecula, guano, human waste, ordure, pee, piddle, piss, puke, stool, urine, vomit, vomitus, water, weewee, wormcast |
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