MAKE WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make water mean? 

• MAKE WATER (verb)
  The verb MAKE WATER has 1 sense:

1. eliminate urine

  Familiarity information: MAKE WATER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE WATER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eliminate urine

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

Hypernyms (to "make water" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Verb group:

urinate (pass after the manner of urine)

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

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

wet (make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating)

stale (urinate, of cattle and horses)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

It was now day-light, and I returned to my house without waiting to congratulate with the emperor: because, although I had done a very eminent piece of service, yet I could not tell how his majesty might resent the manner by which I had performed it: for, by the fundamental laws of the realm, it is capital in any person, of what quality soever, to make water within the precincts of the palace.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwithstanding, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty’s most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apartment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc. against the duty, etc.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)