excrete
verb (used with object)
to separate and eliminate from an organic body; separate and expel from the blood or tissues, as waste or harmful matter.
were excreting
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past progressiveof excrete.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
We have a number of cases of pentosuria on record in which patients were excreting penatomic sugar, but had not glycosuria, though their urine responded to the ordinary tests for this.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
