defecate
verb(British English also defaecate)
[intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they defecate | |
| he / she / it defecates | |
| past simple defecated | |
| past participle defecated | |
| -ing form defecating |
to get rid of solid waste from your body through your bowels 排便 Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘clear of dregs, purify’): from Latin defaecat- ‘cleared of dregs’, from the verb defaecare, from de- (expressing removal) + faex, faec- ‘dregs’. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.