excrete

(ĭk-skrēt')
tr.v., -cret·ed, -cret·ing, -cretes.
To separate and discharge (waste matter) from the blood, tissues, or organs.

[Latin excernere, excrēt- : ex-, ex- + cernere, to separate.]

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verb

To discharge (wastes or foreign substances) from the body: eliminate, evacuate. Medicine purge. See keep/release.

v

Definition: expel
Antonyms: absorb, ingest

to eliminate waste materials (from a body or organism).
—excretion n.; excretive or excretory adj.

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To throw off or eliminate, as waste matter, by a normal discharge.

See words rhyming with "excrete."

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - afsondre, udsondre

Nederlands (Dutch)
afscheiden

Français (French)
v. tr. - excréter, sécréter (une plante)

Deutsch (German)
v. - ausscheiden

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - (φυσιολ.) εκκρίνω, απεκκρίνω

Italiano (Italian)
secernere

Português (Portuguese)
v. - excretar

Русский (Russian)
выводить шлаки из организма, выделять

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - excretar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - utsöndra (fysiol.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
排泄, 分泌

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 排泄, 分泌

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 배설하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 排出する, 放出する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يفرز‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הפריש, הוציא, החריא, השתין‬

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