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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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
It is characterised by pain in the stomach and back, a frequent and urgent need to urinate, blood in the urine, and sometimes incontinence.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Selam found life in the mountains of Tigray challenging: "For me it was difficult to urinate in the wild."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
After a while, the big boys had to wake up the little ones and march them outside to urinate.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
All of these differences, Yamamoto explained, could determine how contagiously each species of primate urinates.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025
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
“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
In the De Secretis Mulierum, wrongly attributed to Albertus Magnus, it is laid down that "the virgin urinates higher than the woman."
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis
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
Another incident involved "a good number of men who came down and urinated in front of the main entrance".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
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
He urinated and defecated into a tin pan.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
During police interview he claimed his DNA must have transferred to her clothing as he had been sleeping and urinating in the area.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025
Then he came to the realization that he felt like urinating and he had been putting it off until he had finished fixing the little fish.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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