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defecated

defecated is the simple past and past participle 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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Words formed from defecated

Questions about defecated

What is defecated the simple past and past participle of?
Defecated is the simple past and past participle of defecate.

Words near defecated in the dictionary

  1. defeatures
  2. defeaturing
  3. Defebaugh
  4. defecalgesiophobia
  5. defecate
  6. defecated
  7. defecates
  8. defecating
  9. defecation
  10. defecations
  11. defecator

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