excreate

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verb

To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.

OriginLatin excreare →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

verbexcreate (third-person singular simple present excreates, present participle excreating, simple past and past participle excreated)

present singular third person excreates · participle present excreating · participle past excreated · past excreated

  1. obsoleteTo spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.

    In the washing his mouth with a syringe forcibly, I put him upon excreating a great quantity of a filthy matter

    1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinexcreare
  2. Englishexcreate

From Latin excreare, exscreare, from ex (“out”) + screare (“to hawk”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

execrate
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APA

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MLA

“excreate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excreate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “excreate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excreate.

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