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EGEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does egest mean? 

EGEST (verb)
  The verb EGEST has 1 sense:

1. eliminate from the bodyplay

  Familiarity information: EGEST used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EGEST (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they egest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it egests  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: egested  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: egested  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: egesting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Eliminate from the body

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass

Context example:

Pass a kidney stone

Hypernyms (to "egest" is one way to...):

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "egest"):

perspire; sudate; sweat (excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin)

exudate; exude; ooze; ooze out; transude (release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities)

make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee (eliminate urine)

urinate (pass after the manner of urine)

empty; evacuate; void (excrete or discharge from the body)

ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)

barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


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