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doing one's easement

doing one's easement is the present participle and gerund 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 doing one's easement

What is doing one's easement the present participle and gerund of?
Doing one's easement is the present participle and gerund of do one's easement.

Words near doing one's easement in the dictionary

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

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