Defecate vs Defecator - What's the difference?
defecate | defecator |
To purify, to clean of dregs etc.
* Boyle
* , New York 2001, p.224:
To purge; to pass (something) as excrement.
To empty one's bowels of feces.
(obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
* Bates
One who defecates.
* {{quote-news, year=1999, date=February 12, author=Chuck Shepherd, title=News of the Weird, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Number two in the news: In January police in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, were investigating a suspected serial defecator who had soiled three locations around town during the holiday season, including the floor of a recreation center. }}
(obsolete) That which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and syrups.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between defecate and defecator
is that defecate is (obsolete) freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc; refined; purified while defecator is (obsolete) that which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and syrups.As a verb defecate
is to purify, to clean of dregs etc.As an adjective defecate
is (obsolete) freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc; refined; purified.As a noun defecator is
one who defecates.defecate
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Alternative forms
* * defaecateVerb
(defecat)- to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber
- Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […].
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 alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.
defecator
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Noun
(en noun)citation
- (Knight)