excrete
pronunciation
How to pronounce excrete in British English:
UK [ɪkˈskri:t]
How to pronounce excrete in American English:
US [ɪkˈskrit]
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- Verb:
- eliminate from the body
Word Origin
- excrete (v.)
- 1610s, from Latin excretus, past participle of excernere "to sift out, separate" (see excrement). Related: Excreted; excreting.
Example
- 1. The turtle 's gills , then , not only take in oxygen , they also excrete urea .
- 2. They excrete tiny pellets of calcium carbonate which partially neutralise the increasing acidity of the oceans caused by dissolved carbon dioxide .
- 3. Its fibers are ground , boiled , bleached and pressed into puffy white material that can absorb what a baby can excrete .
- 4. The abandoned richmond mine in california has the most acidic waters in the world , courtesy of underground microbes that consume sulfides and excrete sulfuric acid .
- 5. We are part of the trajectory of living tissue : our flesh must breathe , metabolize , mate , excrete , and eventually die .