Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of excrete
nounexcreting (plural excretings)
plural excretings
- An act of excretion.
[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]
1848, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal1 more example
[…] itself will always be with you, despite all cuttings, excretings, and buryings.
2000, John Limon, Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America, page 117
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe bodily process of discharging waste matter
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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