excrete
/ɛkˈskɹiːt/
excrete verb: to discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
Verb
excrete (third-person singular simple present excretes, present participle excreting, simple past and past participle excreted)
excrete meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
excrete in Tamil
- கழிவாக நீங்கல், கழிவாக வெளிப்படல்
excrete in Urdu
- خارج کرنا
excrete in Malayalam
- വിസർജ്ജിക്കുക, വിസർജ്ജനം, വിസർജ്ജനവസ്തു
excrete in Kannada
- ವಿಸರ್ಜಿಸು, ಹೊರದೂಡು, ಕಳೆ, ಹೊರತಳ್ಳು
More languagesFewer languages
- excrete in Arabic
- أَفْرَزَ ʔafraza
Examples of excrete in a sentence
- The rabbits barely acknowledged her, intent on cleaning themselves, nibbling their food, tidily excreting.
- Vorinostat is metabolized and excreted after glucoronidation by uridine diphosphate glucoronosyl transferase (UGT).
- The worms accumulate natural estrogen excreted in human waste and estrogenlike compounds from plastics manufacturing.
Synonyms of excrete
Forms of excrete
| third-person singular present | excretes |
|---|---|
| present participle | excreting |
| past participle | excreted |
| past | excreted |
Origin of excrete
Borrowed from Latin excrētum, past participle of excernō, from ex- (“out”), and cernō (“separate”).
Words formed from excrete
Words that rhyme with excrete
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- entreat
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- complete
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- overheat
- petite
- replete
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
Questions about excrete
- What does excrete mean?
- Excrete means to discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
- What is excrete in Tamil?
- Excrete in Tamil is கழிவாக நீங்கல், கழிவாக வெளிப்படல். See Excrete meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is excrete?
- Excrete is a verb.
- How do you pronounce excrete?
- Excrete is pronounced /ɛkˈskɹiːt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of excrete?
- The past tense of excrete is excreted.
Words near excrete in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: excrete (page history and authors); excrete (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excrete (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excrete (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excrete (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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