EXCRETE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excrete mean? 

• EXCRETE (verb)
  The verb EXCRETE has 1 sense:

1. eliminate from the body

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCRETE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they excrete    ... he / she / it excretes   
Past simple: excreted   
Past participle: excreted   
-ing form: excreting   

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 "excrete" is one way to...):

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

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

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

Derivation:

excreting; excretion (the bodily process of discharging waste matter)

excretory (of or relating to the process of excretion)

 Context examples 

They are not stored and the body also does not excrete them intact.

(Catabolic Pathways for Alanine, Glycine, Serine, Cysteine, Tryptophan, and Threonine, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Edetic acid binds calcium and heavy metal ions, forming soluble stable complexes which are readily excreted by the kidneys.

(Edetic acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Carmegliptin shows extensive tissue distribution and is excreted unchanged in the urine and bile.

(Carmegliptin, NCI Thesaurus)

The activity of drugs in the body over a period of time, including the processes by which drugs are absorbed, distributed in the body, localized in the tissues, and excreted.

(Pharmacokinetics, NCI Dictionary)

Buformin is not metabolized and is excreted in the urine.

(Buformin, NCI Thesaurus)

Liquid substances produced by living organisms to fulfill specific functions or excreted as waste.

(Other Body Fluids and Secretions, NCI Thesaurus)

The Dextran was tracked and detected in the new structures' tubules, demonstrating that filtrate was indeed being produced and excreted as urine.

(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Deferoxamine chelates iron from intra-lysosomal ferritin and siderin forming ferrioxamine, a water-soluble chelate excreted by the kidneys and in the feces via the bile.

(Deferoxamine, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a normal response due to the limited ability to excrete bilirubin until the maturation of the neonatal liver is complete.

(Physiologic Hyperbilirubinemia, NCI Thesaurus)

These enzymes change many drugs, including anticancer drugs, into less toxic forms that are easier for the body to excrete.

(Cytochrome P450, NCI Dictionary)