urinate
Americanverb (used without object)
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urinates,
present (3rd person singular)
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urinated,
past participle, past
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urinating
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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urinatesimple
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urinatessimple
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have urinatedperfect
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has urinatedperfect
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am urinatingprogressive
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are urinatingprogressive
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is urinatingprogressive
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have been urinatingperfect progressive
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has been urinatingperfect progressive
Past
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urinatedsimple
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had urinatedperfect
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was urinatingprogressive
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were urinatingprogressive
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had been urinatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of urinate
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin ūrīnātus, past participle of ūrīnāre, equivalent to Latin ūrīn ( a ) urine + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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In 1961, as astronaut Alan Shepard sat aboard his Redstone rocket waiting to become the first American launched in space, hours of delays forced him to urinate in his space suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The incident occurred Saturday night when the off-duty deputy let the 5-year-old Belgian Malinois, named Santi, out into the yard to urinate, according to a news release by the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Many went from waking up multiple times each night to urinate to waking only about once per night.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
He said he experienced a more frequent need to urinate during and shortly after the precision radiotherapy, but within five weeks was taking part in an archaeological dig he had long been planning.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
The girl has always sat to urinate like other girls.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
If permission is granted but the tortoise urinates, which can cause them to become dangerously dehydrated, the soldiers must call it in again and wait for a base ecologist to respond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2024
She said she is drinking so little herself, she only urinates every other day.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2023
He urinates all over her bathroom, and Amy plots her revenge.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2023
“Her mother badgered the school until they agreed to put a litter box in one of the stalls. So this girl goes into the litter room or to the girl’s room and urinates or whatever.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
If, in addition to quivering, the animal urinates, no better sign could be looked for.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston
The elephants, after ransacking her house and eating her corn, urinated on what remained of her grain supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Terrified, the young boy urinated on himself and remained in his soiled clothes until he and his family were transferred to a Texas detention center.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2025
Nearby, at Rage Ground, where people pay to vent their anger by breaking dishes and smashing cars, at least one homeless man has defecated and urinated outside the business.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
Taking care to not stress the animals or get too close, the researchers followed the monkeys, which are habituated to human presence, until they urinated.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2024
One man urinated in the water not far from me.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
The most frequently reported side effects were dry mouth, nausea, insomnia, and difficulty urinating.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
Also, the dog stained the oak floors by regularly urinating in the living room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025
A review of camera footage from 8:54 a.m. to 9:04 a.m. by the district revealed around 10 agents urinating near storage containers on the parking lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
No, I'm not the urinating champion of all time.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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