solid waste matter that is passed from the body through the bowels synonym faeces粪便;排泄物 the pollution of drinking water by untreated human excrement 未经处理的人体排泄物对饮用水的污染 There was excrement smeared up the wall. 墙上满是粪便。
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’.