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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of excreting |
| Synonyms: | defecation, discharge, discharging, ejecting, ejection, elimination, evacuation, expelling, expulsion, exudation, leaving, perspiration, secretion, sweating, urination, voiding |
| Antonyms: | accretion, eating, receiving |
| Concept: | Excretion. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
| Synonyms: |
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excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement; bloody flux; cacation; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation, exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology., saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism, salivation, catarrh; diarrhea, the runs; ejecta, egesta, sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae (uncleanness)., hemorrhage, bleeding; outpouring (egress).
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| Main Entry: | discharge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pouring forth |
| Synonyms: | elimination, emission, emptying, excretion, exudation, flow, ooze, pus, secretion, seepage, shower, suppuration, vent, voiding |
| Antonyms: | damming |
| Main Entry: | purge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elimination, removal |
| Synonyms: | abolition, abstersion, catharsis, clarification, cleaning, cleanup, coup, crushing, disposal, disposition, ejection, eradication, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, expurgation, extermination, extirpation, liquidation, murder, purification, reign of terror, suppression, witch hunt |
| Antonyms: | holding, keeping, maintenance |
| Main Entry: | sweat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | body's perspiring |
| Synonyms: | diaphoresis, excretion, exudation, perspiration, steam, sudor, transudation |
| Main Entry: | defecation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elimination |
| Synonyms: | excrement, excretion, expurgation, passing off |
| Main Entry: | secretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discharge |
| Synonyms: | excretion, flow, movement, seepage, suppuration |
| Main Entry: | bowel movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion of feces |
| Synonyms: | BM, crap, defecation, discharge, dung, excrement, excretion, fecal matter, feces, feculence, flux, go to the bathroom, manure, number two, shit, stool, waste |
| Main Entry: | purgation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elimination |
| Synonyms: | cut*, destruction, discard, displacement, dropping, ejection, eradication, evacuation, exclusion, excretion, expulsion, extermination, omission, purification, rejection, riddance, taking away, weeding out, withdrawal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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