excrete
- to separate and eliminate from an organic body; separate and expel from the blood or tissues, as waste or harmful matter.
Origin of excrete
Related Words for excrete
secrete, ejaculate, eject, expel, leak, void, remove, evacuate, perspire, produce, eliminate, pass, exhale, urinate, exude, emanate, sweat, exudate, defecate, egestExamples from the Web for excrete
Contemporary Examples of excrete
Ebola causes the body to excrete fluids that are teeming with the virus.
Hormonal excesses in the blood require a clean and healthy liver to metabolize and excrete.
Historical Examples of excrete
The lungs also excrete a large proportion of waste matter from the system.
Popular EducationIra Mayhew
Certain Coccideae also excrete honey-dew, especially in the tropics.
Disease in PlantsH. Marshall Ward
This water had been obtained from a well into which the excrete from a typhus patient had percolated from a privy.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
Worms, amphibia, fishes, and snails form another group which excrete much less carbonic acid.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
Careful watching showed that the plant-lice after this interval did not excrete the sweet fluid.
A Book of Natural HistoryVarious
excrete
- to discharge (waste matter, such as urine, sweat, carbon dioxide, or faeces) from the body through the kidneys, skin, lungs, bowels, etc
- (of plants) to eliminate (waste matter, such as carbon dioxide and salts) through the leaves, roots, etc
Word Origin for excrete
Word Origin and History for excrete
1610s, from Latin excretus, past participle of excernere (see excrement). Related: Excreted; excreting.
excrete
(ĭk-skrēt′)- To eliminate waste material from the body.