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EGEST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does egest mean?
• EGEST (verb)
The verb EGEST has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: EGEST used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: egested
Past participle: egested
-ing form: egesting
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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