EXCRETE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they excrete ... he / she / it excretes

Past simple: excreted

Past participle: excreted

-ing form: excreting

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eliminate from the body

Example:

Pass a kidney stone

Synonyms:

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "excrete" is one way to...):

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excrete"):

perspire; sudate; sweat (excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin)

exudate; exude; ooze; ooze out; transude (release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities)

make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee (eliminate urine)

urinate (pass after the manner of urine)

empty; evacuate; void (excrete or discharge from the body)

ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)

barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

excreting; excretion (the bodily process of discharging waste matter)

excretory (of or relating to the process of excretion)

Credits

Context examples:

This agent is metabolized and excreted by the liver.

(Dichloromethotrexate, NCI Thesaurus)

A compound that is excreted from the body in urine.

(Creatinine, NCI Dictionary)

Upon intake of deuterated 3-methylhistidine (3-MH), this agent is incorporated into muscle protein and then is subsequently excreted unchanged in the urine.

(Deuterated 3-Methylhistidine, NCI Thesaurus)

A dark orange, yellow pigment that is the product of the breakdown of iron in the blood; it is conjugated in the liver and excreted in the bile.

(Bilirubin, NCI Thesaurus)

Metformin is not metabolized and is excreted unchanged by the kidneys.

(Metformin, NCI Thesaurus)

We drink more and excrete more urine, through which the body expels excess salt.

(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)

Analysis of stool samples helped to calculate calories excreted rather than burned or stored.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

"When dietary potassium is high, kidneys excrete more salt and water, which increases potassium excretion," McDonough said.

(Study: Fruits and Vegetables Can Lower Blood Pressure, VOA)

These metabolites are excreted in urine that maybe used as indicators for pituitary responsiveness.

(Metyrapone, NCI Thesaurus)

A 17-ketosteroid which excreted in the urine as a metabolite of steroid hormones.