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diarrhoea

diarrhoea is the alternative spelling of diarrhea.

Meaning of diarrhea

Noun

diarrhea (countable and uncountable, plural diarrheas)

  1. (Canada, US) A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very soft or watery bowel movements.
  2. (Canada, US) The watery or very soft excrement that comes from such bowel movements.
    • My Pampers bill is higher than your paycheck, my hands are raw from washing them every six minutes, and I do eight loads of laundry a day because everything we own is covered in diarrhea, and you want me to "plug him up" and wait another three weeks?2008, Danna Korn and Connie Sarros, Gluten-Free Cooking for Dummies, Chapter 1

Forms of diarrhoea

pluraldiarrhoeas

Words formed from diarrhoea

Phrases with diarrhoea

Questions about diarrhoea

What is diarrhoea the alternative spelling of?
Diarrhoea is the alternative spelling of diarrhea.

Words near diarrhoea in the dictionary

  1. diarrheal
  2. diarrheas
  3. diarrheic
  4. diarrheogenic
  5. diarrhetic
  6. diarrhoea
  7. diarrhoeagenic
  8. diarrhoeal
  9. diarrhoeas
  10. diarrhoeic
  11. diarrhoetic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: diarrhoea (page history and authors); diarrhea (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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