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defaecate

defaecate is the alternative spelling of defecate.

Meaning of defecate

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. (archaic, transitive) To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
  3. (also, archaic, figuratively, transitive) To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.
    • [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.1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter III, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 22

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Forms of defaecate

third-person singular presentdefaecates
present participledefaecating
past participledefaecated
pastdefaecated

Questions about defaecate

What is defaecate the alternative spelling of?
Defaecate is the alternative spelling of defecate.

Words near defaecate in the dictionary

  1. defactualization
  2. defactualize
  3. defactualized
  4. defactualizes
  5. defactualizing
  6. defaecate
  7. defaecated
  8. defaecates
  9. defaecating
  10. defaecation
  11. defaecations

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