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did one's easement

did one's easement is the simple past of do one's easement.

Meaning of do one's easement

Verb

do one's easement (third-person singular simple present does one's easement, present participle doing one's easement, simple past did one's easement, past participle done one's easement)

  1. (dated, euphemistic) To ease one's bowels: to defecate.
    • He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayers.2013, Shirley McKay, “A Merry Month”, in Friend & Foe (A Hew Cullen Mystery), Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN

Questions about did one's easement

What is did one's easement the simple past of?
Did one's easement is the simple past of do one's easement.

Words near did one's easement in the dictionary

  1. did one's business
  2. did one's damnedest
  3. did one's darnedest
  4. did one's duty
  5. did one's ease
  6. did one's easement
  7. did one's homework
  8. did one's job
  9. did one's own thing
  10. did one's own time
  11. did one's part

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