EXCRETING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excreting mean? 

• EXCRETING (noun)
  The noun EXCRETING has 1 sense:

1. the bodily process of discharging waste matter

  Familiarity information: EXCRETING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCRETING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bodily process of discharging waste matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding

Hypernyms ("excreting" is a kind of...):

discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excreting"):

defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)

incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)

micturition; urination (the discharge of urine)

Derivation:

excrete (eliminate from the body)

 Context examples 

One of the key processes in which the human body eliminates toxic chemicals as well as hormones (such as estrogen) is by attaching glucuronic acid to them in the liver and then excreting the complex in the bile.

(Calcium Saccharate, NCI Thesaurus)