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Ejaculate vs Defecate - What's the difference?

ejaculate | defecate |

In intransitive terms the difference between ejaculate and defecate

is that ejaculate is of a male, to eject semen (or, of a female, vaginal fluid) during an orgasm while defecate is to empty one's bowels of feces.

As a noun ejaculate

is semen ejected during an ejaculation.

As an adjective defecate is

freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

ejaculate

Verb

(ejaculat)
  • Of a male, to eject semen (or, of a female, vaginal fluid) during an orgasm.
  • To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
  • * Blackmore
  • Its active rays ejaculated thence.
  • To say abruptly.
  • * , Episode 16
  • --Half a crown, Stephen responded. I daresay he needs it to sleep somewhere.
    --Needs! Mr Bloom ejaculated , professing not the least surprise at the intelligence, I can quite credit the assertion and I guarantee he invariably does.

    Synonyms

    * (eject semen) bust a nut, come, cream, cum, pop, spoof, sprog, spurt, shoot off (all slang) * (eject vaginal fluid) come, cream, cum, squirt, flood, (all slang) * (eject abruptly) eject, throw out * (say abruptly) blurt out * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Semen ejected during an ejaculation.
  • See also

    * shot spot

    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

    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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