defecate

English

Alternative forms

• defæcate
• defaecate

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin dēfaecāre (“to purify”), from de- and faex (“dreg, impurity”).

Pronunciation

(verb)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfɪkeɪt/

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(adjective)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfɪkət/

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Verb

defecate (third-person singular simple present defecates, present participle defecating, simple past and past participle defecated)

1. (intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.
2. (now rare) To purify, to clean of dregs etc.
   • 1744, Robert Boyle; Thomas Birch, Thomas Birch, editor, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Five Volumes : to which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author‎^[1], volume 1, compilation of Certain phyſiological eſsays and other tracts written at diſtant times, and on ſeveral occaſions by the honourable Robert Boyle ; wherein ſome of the tracts are enlarged by experiments and the work is increaſed by the addition of a diſcourse about the abſolute reſt in bodies. by Robert Boyle, part VI: Certain Physiological Essays, and other tracts written at diſtant Times, eſsay 7: The Hiſtory of Fluidity and Firmneſs, the ſecond part: of Firmneſs, page 265:

     […] I ſhall add, that proſecuting a hint a happened to meet with in the diſcourſe of a wandering chymiſt, I practiſed a way ſo to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber drawn per ſe, that a pretty proportion of it would come over ſo tranſparent and finely coloured, that the experiment did not a little pleaſe thoſe I ſhewed it to.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 224:

     Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […].

3. (now rare, transitive) To purge; to pass (something) as excrement.

Synonyms

• (excrete feces): See Thesaurus:defecate

Related terms

• defecation
• feces

Translations

expel feces from one's bowels — See also translations at poop,‎ poo,‎ shit

• Arabic: تَغَوَّطَ‎ (taḡawwaṭa)
• Armenian: արտաթորել (artatʿorel), կղկղել (hy) (kłkłel), ծրտել (hy) (crtel) (of birds)
• Assamese: হগা (hoga) (informal), পাইখেনা কৰা (paikhena kora) (formal)
• Azerbaijani: qığlamaq
• Bashkir: сысыу (sısıw)
• Belarusian: спаражня́цца impf (sparažnjácca), ка́каць impf (kákacʹ) (childish or colloquial), сраць (sracʹ) (vulgar)
• Burmese: အီးပါ (my) (i:pa), ဓာတ်သွား (my) (dhatswa:), ကျင်ကြီးစွန့် (my) (kyangkri:cwan.), မစင်စွန့် (my) (ma.cangcwan.), ဝမ်းသွား (my) (wam:swa:), အခင်းကြီးသွား (my) (a.hkang:kri:swa:), ချေးပါ (hkye:pa)
• Chickasaw: aya
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 屙屎 (o¹ si²)

  Mandarin: 大便 (zh) (dàbiàn), 拉屎 (zh) (lāshǐ), 排大便 (pái dàbiàn), 大解 (zh) (dàjiě)

  Min Nan: 放屎 (zh-min-nan) (pàng-sái)

• Czech: vyprázdnit se, kálet (cs), vykálet se
• Danish: defækere
• Dutch: poepen (nl), een bruine trui breien (colloquial)
• Egyptian: (fgn)
• Esperanto: feki (eo), koti (eo)
• Finnish: ulostaa (fi)
• French: déféquer (fr), aller à la selle (fr), couler un bronze (fr) (colloquial)
• Galician: defecar
• German: defäkieren (de), koten (de)
• Greek: αφοδεύω (el) (afodévo)
• Hindi: हगना (hi) (hagnā), मलत्याग करना (malatyāg karnā)
• Hungarian: székel (hu)
• Ido: fekifar (io)
• Interlingua: defecar
• Irish: cac (ga), do chac a dhéanamh
• Italian: defecare (it), liberarsi (it)
• Japanese: 排便する (ja) (はいべんする, haiben suru)
• Jarai: eh
• Javanese: ꦔꦶꦱꦶꦁ (ngising), ꦧꦼꦧꦚꦸ (bebanyu), ꦮꦮꦿꦠꦤ꧀ (wawratan), ꦧꦺꦴꦧꦺꦴꦠꦤ꧀ (bobotan)
• Kazakh: тышу (tyşu)
• Khmer: បត់ជើងធំ (bɑtcəəngthum), បន្ទោរបង់ (bântoŭrbâng)
• Korean: 배변하다 (ko) (baebyeonhada), 대변을 보다 (daebyeoneul boda)
• Latin: defaeco, cuniō
• Malay: berak (ms)
• Manchu: ᡶᠠᠵᠠᠮᠪᡳ (fajambi)
• Maori: whakatikotiko, tiko, roke
• Mongolian: баах (mn) (baax)
• Ngazidja Comorian: hunya
• Occitan: defecar, cagar (oc) (vulgar)
• Ottoman Turkish: صیچمق‎ (sıçmak)
• Polish: wypróżniać się impf, wypróżnić się pf, defekować impf, zdefekować pf
• Portuguese: defecar (pt)
• Quechua: akay (qu), ismay
• Romanian: defeca (ro), căca (ro) (vulgar)
• Russian: испражня́ться (ru) impf (ispražnjátʹsja), (childish or colloquial) ка́кать (ru) impf (kákatʹ), (vulgar) срать (ru) impf (sratʹ)
• Sanskrit: हदति (hadati)
• Spanish: defecar (es), ciscarse (es), cagar (es) (colloquial), jiñar (es) (vulgar), plantar un pino (colloquial)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} ha avföring , (colloquial) bajsa (sv), (vulgar) skita (sv), defekera
• Tagalog: pagdumi, pagtae
• Tatar: тычу (tıçu)
• Thai: อุจจาระ (th) (ùt-jaa-rá), อึ (th) (ʉ̀), ไปทุ่ง
• Turkish: dışkılamak
• Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎗𐎀 (ḫrả)
• Ukrainian: випоро́жнюватися impf (vyporóžnjuvatysja), ка́кати impf (kákaty) (childish or colloquial), сра́ти (uk) impf (sráty) (vulgar)
• Welsh: cachu (cy), ysgarthu (cy) (medical)

Adjective

defecate (comparative more defecate, superlative most defecate)

1. (obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
   • 1699, William Bates, Spiritual Perfection, unfolded and enforced:

     Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.

Anagrams

• feceated

Italian

Verb

defecate

1. second-person plural present and imperative of defecare

Latin

Verb

dēfecāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēfecō

Spanish

Verb

defecate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of defecar combined with te