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defaecator

defaecator is the alternative form of defecator.

Meaning of defecator

Noun

defecator (plural defecators)

  1. One who defecates.
    • Number two in the news: In January police in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, were investigating a suspected serial defecator who had soiled three locations around town during the holiday season, including the floor of a recreation center.1999 February 12, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader
  2. (archaic) That which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing impurities from juices and syrups.
    • After the preliminary filtering or settling of the juice, it is taken into the defecator, and there receives the treatment with lime.1884, Peter Collier, Sorghum, page 293

Forms of defaecator

pluraldefaecators

Questions about defaecator

What is defaecator the alternative form of?
Defaecator is the alternative form of defecator.

Words near defaecator in the dictionary

  1. defaecated
  2. defaecates
  3. defaecating
  4. defaecation
  5. defaecations
  6. defaecator
  7. defaecators
  8. defail
  9. defailance
  10. defailances
  11. defailed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defaecator (page history and authors); defecator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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