Meanings
present singular third person micturates · participle present micturating · participle past micturated · past micturated
- formalintransitivemedicineTo urinate.
Jeffrey Lebowski: So every time -- I just want to understand this, sir -- every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the (owner) --?
1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski1 more example
David Lynch himself uses the down-time between takes to confer with A.D.’s and producers and to drink coffee and/or micturate into the undergrowth, and to smoke American Spirits and walk pensively around the Mercedeses and camera truck’s technical fray, sometimes holding one hand to his cheek in a way that recalls Jack Benny.
1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book GroupSynonyms: break the seal, hit the head, pass water, pee, piddle, piss, slash, take a leak
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo urinate.
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verbeliminate urine
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Origin
- Latinmicturiō“to urinate”
- Englishmicturate
First attested in 1842; irregular back-formation from micturition on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin micturiō (“to urinate”). Related to Old English mīgan (whence Early Middle English miȝen (“to urinate”) See also Mingere and meiere: urination.
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