egest

American

[ee-jest, ih-jest] / iˈdʒɛst, ɪˈdʒɛst /

verb (used with object)

to discharge, as from the body; void (ingest ).

egest British

/ iːˈdʒɛst /

verb

(tr) to excrete (waste material)

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Other Word Forms

egestion noun
egestive adjective

Etymology

Origin of egest

1600–10; < Latin ēgest ( us ) (past participle of ēgerere ) carried out, equivalent to ē- e- ¹ + ges- (variant of ger- ) carry + -tus past participle suffix

Example Sentences

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Second place receives a cute little squeeze toy of a shark that is more or less ingesting and egesting a human leg as you squeeze.

From Washington Post

And they egest, or spit out unpalatable objects, like this:

From New York Times

We all egest a certain amount of psychological wreckage and roiling emotional waste over the course of a fully-lived life.

From Scientific American

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