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Defecate vs Urinate - What's the difference?

defecate | urinate |

As verbs the difference between defecate and urinate

is that defecate is to purify, to clean of dregs etc while urinate is (medicine) to pass urine from the body.

As an adjective defecate

is (obsolete) freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc; refined; purified.

defecate

English

Alternative forms

* * defaecate

Verb

(defecat)
  • To purify, to clean of dregs etc.
  • * Boyle
    • to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber
  • * , New York 2001, p.224:
    • Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […].
  • To purge; to pass (something) as excrement.
  • To empty one's bowels of feces.

    • Usage notes

    * The sense 'to purify' is rare in contrast to the common mean to empty bowels.

    Synonyms

    * drop the kids off at the pool, (vulgar) shit, (vulgar) shite, (vulgar) take a shit, (slang) take a dump, (informal) drop a deuce * See also

    Related terms

    * defecation *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
  • * Bates
    • Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.
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    urinate

    English

    Verb

    (urinat)
  • (medicine) To pass urine from the body.
    • 1877' ''See that the bladder is emptied just before he goes to bed. Wake him once or twice during the night, and have him '''urinate . Use all possible means to remove the cause of irritation by giving him plenty of out-of-door exercise and a very simple, though nutritious, diet.'' — John Harvey Kellogg, Plain facts for Old and Young ....

    Usage notes

    This is a medical term loaned from Latin, but some people prefer to use this word in some social situations as an alternative to (piss) which can be too vulgar and (pee), (wee), etc. which can sound embarrassingly childish. The same applies to the noun (urine).

    Synonyms

    * do business * micturate * piss * take a leak * tinkle (euphemisms) * do a number one * go * go number one (juvenile, probably US only ) * do number one * have a pee * have a wee * make water * pee * piddle * relieve oneself * take a pee * take a wee * tinkle * wee * go see a man about a horse (vulgarisms) * drain one's pickle * drain the lizard * drain the main vein * have a leak * have a piss * have a slash * piss * point Percy at the porcelain * see a man about a horse * see a man about the plumbing * shake hands with the unemployed * slash * splash one's boots * siphon the python * take a piss * take a wicked yes * take a whizz * take care of business * whizz * See also

    Related terms

    * urine * urinal * urination * urea

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