Defecate

Definition: Defecate

Defecate

Verb

1. Have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds".

Date "defecate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Multilingual Slang	English (crap , pinch a loaf, pinch one off , shit, take a crap, take a dump , take a shit), Italian (cagare), Occitan (cagar), Spanish (obrar, quitarle al mondongo un peso de encima, regir, zurrar ), Ukrainian (kakaty ), Yapese (duun'). (references)
Slang	Crap, pinch one off, pinch a loaf, take a crap, take a dump, take a shit, shit. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Defecate

Synonyms: ca-ca (v), crap (v), make (v), shit (v), take a crap (v), take a shit (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cleanness	Wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Defecate

English words defined with "defecate": congenital megacolon ♦ Defecated, Defecating, dung, dyschezia ♦ earth-closet ♦ Hirschsprung's disease, housebroken, house-trained ♦ jakes ♦ megacolon ♦ outhouse ♦ privy, proctitis ♦ tenesmus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "defecate": Drop the kids off at the pool ♦ pinch a loaf, pinch one off ♦ shits ♦ take a dump , Toilet Training. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Do not defecate outdoors. (references)
		Fresh water becomes contaminated by Schistosoma eggs when infected people urinate or defecate in the water. (references)
		Hookworm is widespread in those tropical and subtropical countries in which people defecate on the ground and soil moisture is most favorable. (references)
Human Rights	Congo	There are no toilets, forcing prisoners to urinate and defecate on the floor. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Defecate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 84.21% of the time. "Defecate" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	84.21%	32	61,292
Lexical Verb (base form)	13.16%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	2.63%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	38	N/A

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Language		Translations for "defecate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		sy behoefte doen. (various references)

Albanian		pastroj (abrade, char, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear up, depurate, deterge, eliminate, grub, gut, lustrate, pick, purge, rarefy, rectify, refine, scavenge, scour, scrub, sweep, try), kulloj (clarify, decant, drain, exude, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, Leach, percolate, seep, strain, stream), jashtëqit, bëj nevojë, çlirohem (contract out, get free, get rid, get rid of, lighten, wriggle out). (various references)

Arabic		‏قضى حاجته (relieve oneself), ‏تغوط (defecation, dejection, evacuate, evacuation, motion, movement, pass, pass water, pooh), ‏صفى (clarify, clear, close out, colander, comb out, determine, do away with, filter, filtrate, leach, liquidate, lixiviate, mop up, polish off, refine, run, sell off, strain, uncloud, wipe out), ‏روق (clarify, elutriate, fine). (various references)

Bulgarian		рафинирам (clarify, distil, refine), пречиствам (baptize, filtrate, purify, rarefy, rectify, scavenge, scrub, spiritualize, sublimate, subtilize), изхвърлям изпражнения. (various references)

Chinese		�'粪 (Defecated, Defecating, Defecation), 屙 . (various references)

Czech		vyprázdnit se. (various references)

Dutch		poepen, ontlasting hebben, kakken. (various references)

Esperanto		feki. (various references)

Faeroese		skíta. (various references)

Farsi		تخلیه کردن شکم(طب)(ازبراز), خارج کردن مدفوع . (various references)

Finnish		ulostaa (evacuate). (various references)

French		déféquer. (various references)

German		den darm entleeren, defäkieren, koten. (various references)

Greek		καθαρίζω (absterge, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, clear out, clear up, finish up, flux, furbish, net, peel, purge, purify, rarefy, scavenge, scour, to clean, to skin, wash away), αποπατώ. (various references)

Hebrew		לעשות את צרכיו (ease oneself, relieve oneself). (various references)

Hungarian		szűrt, derített (tanked), ülepített. (various references)

Indonesian		menjernihkan (clarify, disincline, rarefy), memberak, membebaskan diri, berberak. (various references)

Italian		depurare (depurate, purify), raffinare (ennoble, polish, refine), purificare (cleanse, purge, purify). (various references)

Korean		배변하십시�". (various references)

Manx		keckey (defecation, dung, dunging, excrete, excretion, shit, shitting), jannoo keck (defecation, dung, shit), cackey (defecation). (various references)

Papiamen		pupu (dung, excrement), kaka. (various references)

Pig Latin		efecateday

Portuguese		defecar (shit). (various references)

Romanian		purifica (chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, make clean, purge, purify, rectify, sanctify, still, sublimate), filtra (filter, Leach, percolate), epura (expurgate, filter, purge, purify). (various references)

Russian		осветлять, очищать (brighten, chasten, clarify, clean, clean out, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, depurate, deterge, distil, edulcorate, evacuate, mop up, purge, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scoured, scouring, scours), отстаивать (assert, champion, indefensibility, uphold, vindicate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		srati (shit), prazniti se. (various references)

Spanish		defecar. (various references)

Sranan		kunkun (dung, excrement), kaka (cock, dung, excrement, rooster). (various references)

Swedish		rena (clean, cleanse, depurate, fine, make clean, purge, purify, refine), ha avföring (evacuate). (various references)

Turkish		dışkılamak (shit), kurtulmak (be freed, be recovered from, be rid of, be saved, break away, break loose, break oneself of a habit, discard, disengage, dispose of, ditch, elude, escape, evade, extricate oneself, free oneself, get away, get clear of, get out of, get rid of, make a bonfire of, make away with, pull through, put off, quit oneself, recover, shake off, smooth away, throw off), kaka yapmak (do number two, have a shit, shit), arıtmak (clarify, clean, convert, depurate, expurgate, fine, fine down, isolate, purify, rarefy, refine, smelt), arınmak (clarify, purify). (various references)

Ukranian		відстоюватися (cream), відстоювати (advocate, assert, champion, defend), освітлюватися (dawn, light), освітлювати (illuminate, illumine, irradiate, lamp, light, lighten), очищатися (clear, refine), очищати (alcoholize, chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, depurate, deterge, fine, outwash, purge, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scale, weed), звільняти (absolve, acquit, affranchise, avoid, bag, cashier, clear, disband, disencumber, disengage, dismiss, ease, eject, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, exonerate, free, let out, loose, manumit, purify, release, remit, rescue, rid, set free, supersede, unfetter, unshackle, untie, vacate). (various references)

Yucatec		ta'kuba. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	assidere, cacare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "defecate": defecated, defecates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Defecate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defacate, defaecate, defeate, defeciet, defecit, defecite, defedate, defenate, defficate, deficate, deficite, edecate, Jeffcote. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-f-t"
	-1 letter: faceted.
	-2 letters: deface, defeat, defect, facete.
	-3 letters: acted, cadet, decaf, defat, faced, facet, fated, feted.
	-4 letters: aced, cade, cafe, cate, cede, cete, dace, daft, date, deaf, deet, deft, face, fact, fade, fate, feat, feed, feet, feta, fete, tace, teed.
	-5 letters: ace, act, aft, ate, cad, cat, cee, dee, eat, eft, eta, fad, fat, fed, fee, fet, tad, tae, tea, ted, tee.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-f-t"
	+1 letter: defecated, defecates.
	+2 letters: defacement.
	+3 letters: confederate, defacements, deflectable, effectuated.
	+4 letters: affectedness, beneficiated, confederated, confederates, decaffeinate.
	+5 letters: confederative, decaffeinated, decaffeinates.
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