defecate

English

Alternative forms

• defæcate (archaic)
• defaecate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēfaecō.

Pronunciation

(verb)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfɪkeɪt/

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(adjective)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfɪkət/

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Verb

defecate (third-person singular simple present defecates, present participle defecating, simple past and past participle defecated)

1. (intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.
2. (transitive, archaic)
   1. To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
   2. (also figurative) To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.
      • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter III, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 22:

        [I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.

      • 1744, Robert Boyle with Thomas Birch, edited by Thomas Birch, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Five Volumes : to which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author‎, volume 1, compilation of Certain phyſiological eſsays and other tracts written at diſtant times, and on ſeveral occaſions by the honourable Robert Boyle ; wherein ſome of the tracts are enlarged by experiments and the work is increaſed by the addition of a diſcourse about the abſolute reſt in bodies. by Robert Boyle, part VI: Certain Physiological Essays, and other tracts written at diſtant Times, eſsay 7: The Hiſtory of Fluidity and Firmneſs, the ſecond part: of Firmneſs, page 265:

        […] I ſhall add, that proſecuting a hint a happened to meet with in the diſcourſe of a wandering chymiſt, I practiſed a way ſo to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber drawn per ſe, that a pretty proportion of it would come over ſo tranſparent and finely coloured, that the experiment did not a little pleaſe thoſe I ſhewed it to.

      • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 224:

        Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […]

Synonyms

• (excrete feces): See Thesaurus:defecate

Derived terms

• defecalgesiophobia
• defecator
• undefecated

 

Related terms

• defecation
• feces

Translations

expel feces from one's bowels — see also poop,‎ poo,‎ shit

Arabic: تَغَوَّطَ (taḡawwaṭa) Armenian: արտաթորել (artatʻorel), կղկղել (hy) (kġkġel), ծրտել (hy) (crtel) (of birds) Assamese: হগা (hoga) (informal), পাইখেনা কৰা (paikhena kora) (formal) Azerbaijani: qığlamaq Bashkir: сысыу (sısıw) Belarusian: спаражня́цца impf (sparažnjácca), ка́каць impf (kákacʹ) (childish or colloquial), сраць (sracʹ) (vulgar) Bulgarian: акам (akam), сера (sera) Burmese: အီးပါ (my) (i:pa), ဓာတ်သွား (my) (dhatswa:), ကျင်ကြီးစွန့် (my) (kyangkri:cwan.), မစင်စွန့် (my) (ma.cangcwan.), ဝမ်းသွား (my) (wam:swa:), အခင်းကြီးသွား (my) (a.hkang:kri:swa:), ချေးပါ (my) (hkye:pa) Catalan: defecar (ca) Cebuano: hugaw Chickasaw: aya Chinese: Cantonese: 屙屎 (o1 si2) Hokkien: 放屎 (zh-min-nan) (pàng-sái) Mandarin: 大便 (zh) (dàbiàn), 拉屎 (zh) (lāshǐ), 排大便 (pái dàbiàn), 大解 (zh) (dàjiě) Czech: vyprázdnit se, kálet (cs), vykálet se Danish: defækere Dutch: poepen (nl), een bruine trui breien (colloquial) Egyptian: (fgn) Esperanto: feki (eo), koti (eo) Finnish: ulostaa (fi) French: déféquer (fr), aller à la selle (fr), couler un bronze (fr) (colloquial) Galician: defecar German: defäkieren (de), koten (de) Greek: αφοδεύω (el) (afodévo) Ancient Greek: ἀφοδεύω (aphodeúō) Hindi: हगना (hi) (hagnā), मलत्याग करना (malatyāg karnā) Hungarian: székel (hu) Ido: fekifar (io) Ilocano: agtae Interlingua: defecar Irish: cac (ga), do chac a dhéanamh Italian: defecare (it), liberarsi (it) Japanese: 排便する (ja) (はいべんする, haiben suru) Jarai: eh Javanese: ꦔꦶꦱꦶꦁ (ngising), ꦧꦼꦧꦚꦸ (bebanyu), ꦮꦮꦿꦠꦤ꧀ (wawratan), ꦧꦺꦴꦧꦺꦴꦠꦤ꧀ (bobotan) Kapampangan: takla Kazakh: тышу (tyşu) Khmer: បត់ជើងធំ (bɑtcəəngthum), បន្ទោរបង់ (bântoŭrbâng) Korean: 배변하다 (ko) (baebyeonhada), 대변을 보다 (daebyeoneul boda) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: rîtin (ku), gû kirin (ku) Latin: defaeco, cuniō Malay: berak (ms) Manchu: ᡶᠠᠵᠠᠮᠪᡳ (fajambi) Maori: whakatikotiko, tiko, roke Mongolian: баах (mn) (baax) Ngazidja Comorian: hunya Occitan: defecar (oc), cagar (oc) (vulgar) Old English: sċītan Polish: wypróżniać się impf, wypróżnić się pf, defekować (pl) impf, zdefekować pf Portuguese: defecar (pt) Quechua: akay (qu), ismay Romanian: defeca (ro), căca (ro) (vulgar) Russian: испражня́ться (ru) impf (ispražnjátʹsja), (childish or colloquial) ка́кать (ru) impf (kákatʹ), (vulgar) срать (ru) impf (sratʹ) Sanskrit: हदति (hadati) Spanish: defecar (es), ciscarse (es), cagar (es) (colloquial), jiñar (es) (vulgar), plantar un pino (colloquial) Swedish: (please verify) ha avföring , (colloquial) bajsa (sv), (vulgar) skita (sv), defekera Tagalog: tumae, dumumi Tatar: тычу (tıçu) Thai: อุจจาระ (th) (ùt-jaa-rá), อึ (th) (ʉ̀), ไปทุ่ง Turkish: dışkılamak (tr), sıçmak (tr), pislemek (tr) (animals) Ottoman Turkish: صیچمق (sıçmak) Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎗𐎀 (ḫrả) Ukrainian: випоро́жнюватися impf (vyporóžnjuvatysja), ка́кати impf (kákaty) (childish or colloquial), сра́ти (uk) impf (sráty) (vulgar) Vietnamese: đại tiện (vi) Welsh: ysgarthu (cy)

Adjective

defecate (comparative more defecate, superlative most defecate)

1. (obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
   • 1699, William Bates, Spiritual Perfection, unfolded and enforced:

     Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.

Anagrams

• feceated

Italian

Verb

defecate

1. second-person plural present and imperative of defecare

Latin

Verb

dēfecāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēfecō

Spanish

Verb

defecate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of defecar combined with te