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RELIEVE ONESELF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relieve oneself mean? 

RELIEVE ONESELF (verb)
  The verb RELIEVE ONESELF has 1 sense:

1. eliminate urineplay

  Familiarity information: RELIEVE ONESELF used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RELIEVE ONESELF (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 "relieve oneself" 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 "relieve oneself"):

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

stale (urinate, of cattle and horses)

Sentence frames:

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


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