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excreating

excreating is the present participle and gerund of excreate.

Meaning of excreate

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

Questions about excreating

What is excreating the present participle and gerund of?
Excreating is the present participle and gerund of excreate.

Words near excreating in the dictionary

  1. excourses
  2. excoworker
  3. excreate
  4. excreated
  5. excreates
  6. excreating
  7. excreation
  8. excreations
  9. excrement
  10. excremental
  11. excrementitial

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