Thesaurus:urinate

Thesaurus

urinate

English

Verb

Sense: to pass urine from the body

Synonyms

• break the seal
• hit the head (naval)
• micturate (medical)
• pass water
• pee
• piddle (chiefly British)
• piss (vulgar)
• slash (chiefly British)
• take a leak
• take a piss
• take a whiz
• tinkle
• urinate
• void (medical)
• wee (childish)
• wee wee (childish)
• widdle (chiefly British)
• whiz

Hypernyms

• answer the call of nature
• relieve oneself
• see a man (obliquely euphemistic)
• see a man about a dog (obliquely euphemistic)
• see a man about a horse (obliquely euphemistic)
• spend a penny (obliquely euphemistic)

Hyponyms

• bleed the lizard
• drain the lizard
• drain the main vein
• drain the python
• drain the snake
• point Percy at the porcelain
• shake hands with the unemployed
• syphon the python

See also

• Thesaurus:urine
• Thesaurus:urination
• Thesaurus:urinary system
• take the piss

Further reading

• “urinate” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “urinate” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.