use the bathroom

present singular third person uses the bathroom · participle present using the bathroom · participle past used the bathroom · past used the bathroom

1. euphemisticSynonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a bathroom.

   We went camping and had to use the bathroom in the woods.

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   He wanted to go in and use the bathroom but he was ashamed of the way he looked. He had been in hiding, really, for nearly a month.

   1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 5

   Synonyms: use the toilet