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excreate

excreate verb: to spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.

Verb

excreate (third-person singular simple present excreates, present participle excreating, simple past and past participle excreated)

  1. (obsolete) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
    • In the washing his mouth with a syringe forcibly, I put him upon excreating a great quantity of a filthy matter1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC

Forms of excreate

third-person singular presentexcreates
present participleexcreating
past participleexcreated
pastexcreated

Origin of excreate

From Latin excreare, exscreare, from ex (“out”) + screare (“to hawk”).

Questions about excreate

What does excreate mean?
Excreate means to spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
What part of speech is excreate?
Excreate is a verb.
What is the past tense of excreate?
The past tense of excreate is excreated.

Words near excreate in the dictionary

  1. excosecant
  2. excosecants
  3. excourse
  4. excourses
  5. excoworker
  6. excreate
  7. excreated
  8. excreates
  9. excreating
  10. excreation
  11. excreations

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